carnage
- n. 大屠殺;殘殺;大量絕滅
助記提示
1. carn- (諧音“砍”) "flesh"。
中文詞源
來(lái)自詞根carn, 肉,來(lái)自PIE *sker, 砍,切,詞源同saw, shear. -age, 集合名詞后綴。
英文詞源
- carnage (n.)
- c. 1600, from Middle French carnage (16c.), from Old Italian carnaggio "slaughter, murder," from Medieval Latin carnaticum "flesh," from Latin carnaticum "slaughter of animals," from carnem (nominative caro) "flesh," originally "a piece of flesh," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). In English always used more of slaughters of men than beasts. Southey (1795) tried to make a verb of it.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart.
- 他說(shuō)種族間的相互殘殺正在讓這個(gè)國(guó)家走向分裂。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers.
- 歷史敘述把大屠殺簡(jiǎn)縮成了冷冰冰的數(shù)字。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. a scene of carnage
- 大屠殺的場(chǎng)面
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.
- 難民越過邊界逃避國(guó)內(nèi)的大屠殺.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 5. The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
- 戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)完全是一片大屠殺的慘象.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》