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carnage

英 [ˈkɑːnɪdʒ]

美 [ˈkɑːrnɪdʒ]

n.  大屠杀

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Collins.1 / BNC.15158 / COCA.11499

牛津词典

    noun

    • 大屠杀
      the violent killing of a large number of people
      1. a scene of carnage
        大屠杀的场面

    柯林斯词典

    • N-UNCOUNT (尤指战争中的)屠杀,残杀
      Carnageis the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
      1. ...his strategy for stopping the carnage in Kosovo.
        他提出的制止科索沃大屠杀的策略
      2. ...the carnage of motorway accidents.
        高速公路车祸导致的大量人员死亡

    英英释义

    noun

    双语例句

    • No-fly zones have in the past caused the carnage to escalate, as one or more sides attempted to consolidate their gains.
      由于冲突的一方或多方会趁机试图巩固胜利果实,设立禁飞区的做法在以往曾导致屠杀升级。
    • You can tell by the cleanness of the carnage.
      你可以从俐落的刀法看出来。
    • That the world went through two world wars in a short span of30 years in the first half of the20th century left mankind with unprecedented carnage and painful lessons.
      在20世纪上半叶,不到30年就爆发了两次世界大战,给人类带来空前的浩劫和惨痛的教训。
    • Tarantino's movies, with their scenes of sex, bloodshed and carnage, would not be the first choice for the majority of cinema-goers, she said.
      塔伦蒂诺的电影充斥着床戏、流血和杀戮,对于大多数影迷来说不会是第一选择,她说。
    • Bush said he and Maliki agreed to seek ways to stem sectarian carnage threatening to split Iraq.
      布适说,他和马利基均同意寻求各种方法制止分裂伊拉克的教派屠杀。
    • Botched economic policies caused most of the carnage.
      拙劣的经济政策导致了绝大部分人的死亡。
    • And I felt they looked silly too, but they would look a whole lot sillier a few days later when financial carnage was spread from this act.
      而我觉得他们原来看起来就挺愚蠢的,而过上几天,当此举导致的金融灾难蔓延开来,他们看起来会愚蠢透顶。
    • Though poaching is still a problem, strict laws have reduced this senseless carnage.
      虽然偷猎仍是个问题,但严格的法律已使滥杀减少。
    • In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance in his mind the impressions which a scene of carnage and of death must inflict.
      在从前的战争中,人至少可以有某种感情、某种兴趣爱好,它们在人的头脑里起到了对屠杀和死亡的场面所必然造成的各种印象进行平衡的作用。
    • Even by Chinese standards, this month's carnage has been extraordinary.
      即使以中国的标准来看,本月的事故也是非同寻常的。