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

• He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart
  他说种族间的相互残杀正在让这个国家走向分裂。
• If we search for something positive in the carnage created by this financial crisis, it may be that it will provide the impetus for doing what many, including myself, have repeatedly called for: real reform of our regulatory architecture.
  如果说我们能从这场金融危机造成的浩劫中找出什么积极因素的话，大概就是它为实现许多人（包括我本人）一再呼吁的事情提供了动力：对我们的监管架构进行彻底的改革。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• You can tell by the cleanness of the carnage.
  你可以从俐落的刀法看出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tarantino's movies, with their scenes of sex, bloodshed and carnage, would not be the first choice for the majority of cinema-goers, she said.
  塔伦蒂诺的电影充斥着床戏、流血和杀戮，对于大多数影迷来说不会是第一选择，她说。
• 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。