carnage

英 [ˈkɑːnɪdʒ]

美 [ˈkɑːrnɪdʒ]

n.  大屠杀

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Collins.1 / BNC.15158 / COCA.11499

牛津词典

noun

• 大屠杀
  the violent killing of a large number of people
  1. a scene of carnage
     大屠杀的场面

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (尤指战争中的)屠杀,残杀
  Carnageis the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
  1. ...his strategy for stopping the carnage in Kosovo.
     他提出的制止科索沃大屠杀的策略
  2. ...the carnage of motorway accidents.
     高速公路车祸导致的大量人员死亡

英英释义

noun

• the savage and excessive killing of many people
  Synonym:slaughtermassacremass murderbutchery

双语例句

• In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance in his mind the impressions which a scene of carnage and of death must inflict.
  在从前的战争中，人至少可以有某种感情、某种兴趣爱好，它们在人的头脑里起到了对屠杀和死亡的场面所必然造成的各种印象进行平衡的作用。
• When they confronted the next tribe, the Kaibabs, they brought an emissary back to view the carnage.
  当他们面对下一个敌人，凯巴布部落前，他们带领对方的使者观摩了一番他们制造的屠场。
• And I felt they looked silly too, but they would look a whole lot sillier a few days later when financial carnage was spread from this act.
  而我觉得他们原来看起来就挺愚蠢的，而过上几天，当此举导致的金融灾难蔓延开来，他们看起来会愚蠢透顶。
• Characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides.
  以双方的流血和残杀为特点。
• That the world went through two world wars in a short span of30 years in the first half of the20th century left mankind with unprecedented carnage and painful lessons.
  在20世纪上半叶，不到30年就爆发了两次世界大战，给人类带来空前的浩劫和惨痛的教训。
• Another reason opponents of the war have not mobilised publicly may be that the scale and visibility of the American carnage in Iraq are nothing like what they were in Vietnam.
  反战者没有公开动员的另一个原因，也许是美国在伊拉克屠杀的规模和可见度远没有在越南那么严重。
• Bush said he and Maliki agreed to seek ways to stem sectarian carnage threatening to split Iraq.
  布适说，他和马利基均同意寻求各种方法制止分裂伊拉克的教派屠杀。
• ( The death toll in Iraq would be much higher but for breakthroughs in field medicine.) What is more, Americans are not really seeing the carnage.
  （如果不是战地医疗取得了突破，在伊死亡人数会高得多。）更重要的是，美国人并没有真正看到屠杀场面。
• I never saw such cauliflower carnage.
  我从没见过那样的花椰菜破坏情况。
• Botched economic policies caused most of the carnage.
  拙劣的经济政策导致了绝大部分人的死亡。