Murderer
['mɜːd(ə)rə(r)] or ['mɝdərɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being).
編輯:陌莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
(n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
手打:旺达
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Slaughterer, assassin, slayer, killer, butcher, cut-throat.
校對:莫蒂默
例句/造句/用法:
- You murderer of peasants. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- From hour to hour yesterday I expected to hear that he had been found, and that his abductor was the murderer of John Straker. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The tide,' cried the murderer, as he staggered back into the room, and shut the faces out, 'the tide was in as I came up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- So you despair of arresting the murderer of poor Straker, said he. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Whether Mr. Murderer and Mrs. Murderess Manning were not both unusually stout people? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- One of them fired a shot, the other dropped, and the murderer rushed across the garden and over the hedge. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards escaped by the window. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You crazy murderer! 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The murderer was never punished, for the good reason that he was never caught--the result of the further circumstance that he was never pursued. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You see that his murderer might have torn the rest of the sheet from him or he might have taken this fragment from the murderer. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- What do you expect from a murderer? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You would do me a greater still if you could lay your hands on the murderer of John Straker. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- If she died, where could there be found on record a murderer, whose cruel act might compare with his? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In the few cases that get into the newspapers, are there not instances of slain bodies found, and no murderers ever discovered? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But now, in the midst of the dying and the dead, how could a thought of heaven or a sensation of tranquillity possess one of the murderers? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Its appearance and the dust upon the bottle showed that it was no common vintage which the murderers had enjoyed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And if Count Fosco must divide murderers into classes, I think he has been very unfortunate in his choice of expressions. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Murderers were not the only people liable to be hanged, and women convicts were not treated like ladies in undeserved distress. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice, and hint that Providence must sleep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- In the defensive declarations and pretended confessions of murderers, the pursuing shadow of this torture may be traced through every lie they tell. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- These papers have all been burned by the murderers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I only hope this'll teach master not to have any more of these dreadful creatures, that are born to be murderers and robbers from their very cradle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Would he steal on me in my sleep; or should I contend to the last with my murderers, knowing, even while I struggled, that I must be overcome? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A short time ago three murderers were taken beyond the city walls and shot. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But the wickedness cannot be covered; the guilt will lie on the whole land, till justice is done on the murderers. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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