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

• 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。
• 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。
• Massacres erupt without anyone being held accountable.
  爆发许多屠杀案而又没有人承担责任。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollection.
  近来那些不可胜数的屠杀，在他们的头脑中记忆犹新。
• 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。