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单词

massacre

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ˈmæsəkər
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"Massacre" 的词源来自于法语词汇 "massacre",意为 "killing, slaughter, carnage",进一步追溯,其来源于旧法语 "macacre, macecle" 意为 "butcher's shop"。

释义

n. 大屠杀;惨败;彻底破坏 v. 屠杀;彻底击败;彻底破坏;(非正式)搞砸;(非正式)笨拙地演奏 n. (Massacre) (俄、泰、马、尼)马萨克尔(人名) [ 复数 massacres 第三人称单数 massacres 现在分词 massacring 过去式 massacred 过去分词 massacred ]

例句

强化记忆

联想记忆法:你可以将 "massacre" 联想为 "mass" (大量) + "scare" (害怕)。就像是大量的人因为受到害怕和恐惧而导致了大屠杀,这样就容易记住这个单词的意义了。"Massacre" 一词从16世纪开始在英文中使用,最初指的是肉制品市场,后来用于描述大规模屠杀,用于阐述战争或政治冲突中的野蛮杀戮。

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Probably the most horrifying event in the Vietnam Warwas the My Lai Massacre.A brigade of American soldiers
he was celebrated as a national hero well into the 20th century.400 years after the massacre on Banda,Coen’s statue still stands in the city of Hoorn—
By macabre coincidence, this last attack occurredjust hours before the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.But that one American attack killed roughly the same number of victims
He actually meant to quote John Adams' defenseof British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trialsthat facts are stubborn things.
and ends up massacring thousands of striking workers,mirroring the real-life ‘Banana Massacre’ of 1928.Combined with the novel’s magical realism,
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