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。
• 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Boxers people are flaunting the "support the qing dynasty and exterminate the foreigners" banner, besieges the embassy church, massacres the priest foreigner, has caused the Eight Power Expeditionary Force aggressive war against China finally.
  义和拳民打着扶清灭洋旗号，围攻使馆教堂，残杀教士洋人，接着发生了八国联军侵华战争。
• 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。