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

• What is more, Americans are not really seeing the carnage.
  更重要的是，美国人并没有真正看到屠杀场面。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。