massacre

英 ['mæsəkə(r)] 美 ['mæsəkər]

• n. 大屠杀；<口>惨败
• v. 大屠杀；<口>彻底击败

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]大屠杀

   cruel killing of a large number (of people or animals)

2. [C]〈口〉惨败

   a severe defeat

v. (动词)

1. vt. 大屠杀

   kill large numbers of (people or animals)

2. vt. 〈口〉彻底击败

   defeat severely

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 残杀，大屠杀
2. 成批屠宰
3. 大批淘汰
4. <口>惨败

v. 动词

1. 屠杀，残杀，歼灭 ，杀戮，统统杀死
2. 乱切，乱砍
3. 损害
4. 弄糟
5. <口>使惨败，彻底击败 ，严重挫败

英英释义

Noun:

1. the savage and excessive killing of many people

Verb:

1. kill a large number of people indiscriminately;

   "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The massacre was a crime against humanity.
   这场大屠杀是一桩反人类的罪行。
2. The press has reported the massacre of thousands of people for their religious beliefs.
   新闻界报道了那场因宗教信仰原因而对千万人的大屠杀。
3. The game was a complete massacre; we lost 10-0.
   那次比赛真是一次惨败，我们0比10输了。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Vichy government was the accessory of Nazi to massacre the Jews who lived in France.
   维希政府是德国纳粹残害住在法国的犹太人的帮凶之一。
2. The hunters came from the East to massacre the buffaloes of the plains, killing several million in a short time.
   这批猎手从东部来到这片平原上大肆捕杀野牛，很快就有几百万只野牛惨遭杀戮。
3. He is collecting evidence to massacre his opponents.
   他正在收集证据要彻底击败他的对手。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.
   在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
2. The game was a 0-8 massacre.
   比赛结果是0-8惨败。

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. They set fire to the city and massacred all the inhabitants.
   他们放火烧了这座城市,而且屠杀了所有的居民。
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2. We were massacred in the final.
   我们在决赛中惨败。

经典引文

• For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres.

  出自：Titus Andronicus , Shakespeare

• Plunder and massacre had been expected.

  出自： G. Borrow

• He marched them out bound..and massacred them with sword and spear.

  出自： P. Warner

词汇搭配

• Katyn Massacre 卡廷屠杀案(1940...
• massacre of the innocents 撤销某些议案的决议...
• massacre off the innocents 屠杀婴孩

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. massacre用作动词的基本意思是“大屠杀”,其宾语一般是人,着重指大批地杀害手无寸铁、没有抵抗、防卫能力的人,偶尔也可以是动物; massacre在口语中还可以作“彻底击败”解。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

massacre, butcher, kill, slaughter

• 参见butcher条。

kill，murder，slaughter，massacre，assassinate，execute

• 这些动词均有“杀、杀死”之意。
• kill普通用词，含义广泛，泛指以任何方式使人、动物或植物死亡。
• murder指谋杀或凶杀。
• slaughter本义指大批宰杀动物，也指像屠宰牲畜一样一次杀死许多人。
• massacre语气比slaughter强。指大屠杀，尤指屠杀失去了自卫能力的人。
• assassinate通常指因政治原因用非法手段杀害政治领袖人物或知名人士。
• execute指依法处死罪犯。

词源解说

• ☆ 16世纪80年代进入英语，直接源自古法语的macecler，意为屠宰，屠杀。

近反义词

【近义词】

• murder
• slaughter
• kill
• murder
• slaughter