massacres

英 [ˈmæsəkəz]

美 [ˈmæsəkərz]

n.  屠杀; 残杀; (运动或比赛中的)惨败
v.  屠杀; 杀戮; (在运动或比赛中)使惨败
massacre的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 大屠杀;大残杀
  Amassacreis the killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent and cruel way.
  1. Maria lost her 62-year-old mother in the massacre.
     在大屠杀中玛丽亚失去了62岁的母亲。
  2. ...reports of massacre, torture and starvation.
     关于屠杀、拷打与挨饿的报道
• VERB 大规模屠杀;大规模残杀
  If peopleare massacred, a large number of them are attacked and killed in a violent and cruel way.
  1. 300 civilians are believed to have been massacred by the rebels...
     据信有300位平民被叛乱分子残杀。
  2. Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.
     军队肆无忌惮地屠杀手无寸铁的民众。

双语例句

• You fish out all manner of odds and ends of knowledge revolutions, schisms, massacres, systems of government; but Huss where is he?
  于是，你翻出所有零零碎碎的知识储备宗教革命，教会分裂，集体屠杀，政权体制可是哈斯这个人在哪里呢？
• Yousuf Karsh was born in Armenia in1908 and grew up under the horrors of the Armenian massacres.
  优素福·卡什1908年出生于亚美尼亚，在对亚美尼亚人的恐怖仇杀中长大。
• Both projects were pursued ruthlessly and entailed civilian massacres, torture and slavery in factories, mines and military brothels.
  日本残忍地推行这两项计划，致使平民身陷屠杀、酷刑以及在厂矿和慰安所受到奴役的苦难之中。
• The old YangZhou had a traditional and magnificent history status, as well as had been eclipsed by many wars and massacres. All had the important influence to previous Dynasties writers.
  古城扬州辉煌的传统历史地位，以及历经诸多战乱与屠城而导致的衰落，对历代文人都有着重要的影响。
• The shooting marked the arrival in peaceful small-town Finland of US-style high-school massacres, a phenomenon spurred by the internet and the isolation of a troubled teenager.
  这次枪击标志着美式枪击案正式“登陆”宁静的芬兰小镇。这一现象多是由互联网信息的泛滥和青少年的孤独感造成的。
• The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
  当地最豪华的酒店和疗养胜地被屠杀的恐怖所笼罩，恐怖袭击进而破坏了印度经济高速发展的根基。
• Another sad statistic to be added to a long list of similar massacres that Americans seem unable to halt.
  又一悲伤的数据被增加到一长串类似的屠杀案中，美国人似乎无法停止。
• As his forces advanced across the country, there existed the potential for wholesale massacres of innocent civilians.
  随着他的军队向全国各地进军，无辜平民有可能遭到大规模屠杀。
• Why, we should ask, are the gunmen in school massacres almost always male?
  我们应当扪心自问，为什么在校园枪击案中，持枪歹徒几乎都是男性？
• The sites of prior school massacres are etched on our minds, a symbolic shorthand for the violence and malevolence that none of us can comprehend.
  先前的校园大&场景还历历在目，快速闪现的是这种我们不可理解的暴力与恶意的一幕幕镜头。