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

• Oneof the most brutal massacres takes place in the city of hue.
  其中规模最大的屠杀发生在顺化市。
• Of Indian massacres ln the late19th century.
  19世纪末对印第安人的进攻。
• 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？
• Massacres erupt without anyone being held accountable.
  爆发许多屠杀案而又没有人承担责任。
• 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。
• 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。
• But the concern is, of course, of all the different armed groups in the fear of reprisals, perhaps even massacres.
  但令人的担忧的是，不同的武装团体害怕报复行为，甚至屠杀。
• 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。
• 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。
• Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their curiosity and desire for learning.
  关于蒙古人作战和杀戮的事我们在历史上听得太多，而对于他们的好奇心和求知欲却知之甚少。