Massacre



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 大屠杀; 大败
• ［英］ n. 大屠杀 ( the indiscriminate, merciless killing of a number of human beings)
• ［记］ 分割记忆: mass ( 大批) +acre ( 英亩) -> 把一大批人在一英亩的地方杀掉

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle French
• Date: circa 1578
• 1. the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
• 2. a cruel or wanton murder
• 3. a wholesale slaughter of animals
• 4. an act of complete destruction <the author's massacre of traditional federalist presuppositions — R. G. McCloskey>

II. transitive verb (massacred; massacring)

• Date: 1581
• 1. to kill by massacre ; slaughter
• 2. mangle 2 <words were misspelled and syntax massacred — Bice Clemow>
• ? massacrer noun

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