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

• 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。
• The rule of the last great Mongol leader was a complete contrast to the destruction and massacres carried out by his forebears.
  蒙古最后一位大首领的治国方针，与其祖先所推行的毁灭和屠杀政策形成了鲜明的对照。
• The Fifth Chapter concentrated on the two case-studies: the peacekeeping actions in Macedonia and the race massacres in Rwanda to show the effect of preventive diplomacy in reality.
  论文的第五章采用案例分析的办法，选取马其顿维和和卢旺达种族屠杀的事例，对预防性外交的实际效果进行了初步探讨。
• The time is past for guns and killings and massacres.
  动不动就用枪、动不动就杀、大规模屠杀的时代已经过去了。
• The Nazi massacres millions of Jews as well as thousands of non-Jews. Its absolute evil is not only anti-Semitic but also anti-human. Sophie is forced to make choices passively and helplessly.
  纳粹不仅屠杀数百万的犹太人，还屠杀了无辜的数以千计的非犹太人；纳粹邪恶无处不在，它不只是反犹，也是反人类。
• 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。
• 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。
• Prosecutors said guards at the prison had lent inmates weapons and vehicles in order for one of the massacres to be carried out.
  检举官说在其中的一起屠杀事件中该监狱的狱警借给了囚犯武器和车辆。
• 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。