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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Massacres erupt without anyone being held accountable.
  爆发许多屠杀案而又没有人承担责任。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。