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

• 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。
• We in Kurdistan and Iraq are paying that price today; and, if it is not stopped, the carnage will spread.
  在库尔德斯坦和伊拉克，我们今天正为此付出代价；如果不加阻止的话，屠杀范围将扩大。
• Even by Chinese standards, this month's carnage has been extraordinary.
  即使以中国的标准来看，本月的事故也是非同寻常的。
• ( 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。
• 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。
• El Para managed to escape the carnage but fell into the hands of a Chadian rebel movement.
  首领萨尔瓦多第从战斗中逃脱，但是却落入了反叛运动组织中。
• Chinese stocks were still soaring when the carnage in global markets began last year.
  去年初，当全球市场开始残杀时，中国股市仍在不断飙升。
• If you wanted, you could create an influence map that penalized squares where lots of carnage is taking place.
  如果你愿意，你可以创建一个影响地图，处罚发生大量流血残杀处的那些方块。
• Imagine the carnage if they ever escaped their cages.
  想象一下它们一旦逃出铁笼后会出现的残杀景象！
• 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。