carnage
英 ['kɑ?n?d?]
美 ['kɑrn?d?]
助記提示
carnage：砍你祭。砍下你們的頭顱祭奠死去的戰(zhàn)士，城破后屠城時的情景——大屠殺，殘殺。
1. carn- (諧音“砍”) "flesh"。
中文詞源
carnage 大屠殺來自詞根carn, 肉，來自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.
雙語例句
- 1. He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart.
- 他說種族間的相互殘殺正在讓這個國家走向分裂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers.
- 歷史敘述把大屠殺簡縮成了冷冰冰的數(shù)字。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a scene of carnage
- 大屠殺的場面
來自《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內(nèi)的大屠殺.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.
- 戰(zhàn)場完全是一片大屠殺的慘象.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》