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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Kill few, but on no account repeal the death penalty or grant any general pardon. The United States characterizes the massacres as genocide; other countries and international organizations do not.
  杀人要少，但是决不废除死刑，决不大赦。美国把这些大屠少定义为种族屠杀。
• 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。
• For they are so utterly devoid of conscience that they are even creating "friction" and perpetrating massacres and splits after our national enemy has penetrated deep into our territory.
  因为这类坏蛋，已经丧尽天良，当一个民族敌人深入国土的时候，他们还要闹磨擦，闹惨案，闹分裂。