Massacre的意思|Massacre的解释-里氏词典

massacre ['mæsәkә]

n. 大屠杀

vt. 大屠杀, 残杀

[法] 大屠杀, 残杀

massacre

[ noun ]

the savage and excessive killing of many people

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

kill a large number of people indiscriminately

<verb.change>

mow down

slaughter

The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda

Massacre \Mas"sa*cre\, n. [F., fr. LL. mazacrium; cf. Prov. G.
metzgern, metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and
LG. matsken to cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth.
m['a]itan.]
1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under
circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the
usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
Bartholomew's Day; the St. Valentine's Day massacre; the
Amritsar massacre; the Wounded Knee massacre.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Murder. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: {Massacre}, {Butchery}, {Carnage}.

Usage: Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who
can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery
refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men
as if they were brute beasts. Carnage points to
slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the
slain.

I'll find a day to massacre them all,
And raze their faction and their family. --Shak.

If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries. --Shak.

Such a scent I draw
Of carnage, prey innumerable! --Milton.

Massacre \Mas"sa*cre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Massacred}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Massacring}.] [Cf. F. massacrer. See {Massacre}, n.]
To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not
be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without
necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher;
to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.

If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as
Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. --Macaulay.

Declaring the country "a kingdom of lies," a leading Roman Catholic clergyman Sunday accused the military of hindering an inquiry into the massacre of six Jesuit priests.
All three men were convicted of massacre and illegal arms possession.
Sind province officials met Ishaq Khan at the airport and briefed him on the massacre.
Six months after the Beijing massacre, she spoke again with some of them, now in exile and trying to keep the reform movement in their Communist homeland alive from half a world away.
In 1983, an Israeli commission which investigated the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut called for the ouster of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of "blunders" that set the stage for the killings.
The Salvadoran government has offered a reward of $250,000 for information leading to the prosecution of those responsible for the massacre.
Poles tearfully accepted the Soviet Union's apology for the massacre of almost 15,000 Polish officers during World War II, but demanded reparations and more details of the killings.
Col. Jose Chavez Caceres, commander of the 5th Army Brigade and the Jiboa battalion, has been removed from his post but is not directly implicated in the massacre, military sources said.
Before the Tiananmen massacre, the big problem for many Jiangsu projects was the shortage of domestic funds following last year's retrenchment.
However, since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, pressure has been building in Congress to adopt a less conciliatory policy.
But the report went on to say that version of the massacre was now being reconsidered.
They want to be there too." Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the massacre of civilians by U.S. troops at the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
Perhaps, Parry said, that is because the massacre was the tribe's Holocaust.
Relatives continued a grisly search in forests outside Timisoara through mass graves of corpses, most naked and many mutilated, of victims of a massacre by security forces last weekend.
The U.N. Office of High Commissioner for Refugees said it sent a report of the massacre to the regional anti-piracy center in Songkhla, Southern Thailand.
Li is believed to be among the leaders who pushed for the military crackdown that ended in the weekend massacre of hundreds of unarmed civilians as troops cleared Tiananmen Square of pro-democracy protesters.
She was the last witness to an army massacre of 29 peasants at Cayara village in May 1988.
Then on Thursday it fell another 8 per cent, its worst day since the Tiananmen square massacre in 1989.
Brazilian police were poised to charge 31 police officers and two other people in connection with last month's massacre of 21 people in a Rio de Janeiro slum, officials said.
In 1987, he was unlucky enough to get shot in the leg during a horrendous massacre at a polling-station in Haiti.
Notably, one of Mr. Krenz's few official visits overseas came a few months ago, when he visited China after the massacre in Beijing.
The issue, dormant for decades, was resurrected in the 1970s when Armenian extremists began more than a decade of attacks against Turkish diplomats abroad, saying they were avenging the massacre of their ancestors.
The situation has become worse since the weekend massacre in Tiananmen Square, he said.
Rank-and-file soldiers of the Presidential Guard, upset by the church massacre and other government-sponsored violence, overthrew military ruler Lt.
The uprising was triggered by the massacre of thousands of people protesting Ceausescu's harsh rule, and at least several hundred more are believed to have died in fighting since Friday.
Congressional Democrats and even many Republicans have attacked Bush for moving too rapidly to re-establish ties with China since the Tiananmen Square massacre and say Beijing has made only cosmetic changes since June.
So far, the massacre has gone unanswered.
The United States suspended $78 million in aid to the government of the impoverished Caribbean nation in November 1987 to protest a massacre that disrupted elections.
A congressional staffer involved in drafting the sanctions says they are likely to mirror those Mr. Bush enacted shortly after the massacre.
The merger may bring some synergy benefits in areas such as foreign exchange, but Midland holders will face exposure to Chinese politics, as Cable & Wireless holders found after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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