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

• You can tell by the cleanness of the carnage.
  你可以从俐落的刀法看出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The country's breakup would undoubtedly lead to chaos and carnage.
  国家分裂无疑将导致混乱和屠杀。
• I am not sure whether anyone in Israel actually believes that the scenes of carnage in Gaza will induce such a response; no one else does.
  我不能确信，以色列是否有人真的相信加沙的屠杀场景会引起这样的反应；没有人能相信。
• ( 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。
• Though poaching is still a problem, strict laws have reduced this senseless carnage.
  虽然偷猎仍是个问题，但严格的法律已使滥杀减少。
• 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。