carnage

英 [ˈkɑːnɪdʒ]

美 [ˈkɑːrnɪdʒ]

n. 大屠杀

TOEFL GRE TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.15158 / COCA.11499

牛津词典

noun

大屠杀
the violent killing of a large number of people
1. a scene of carnage
  大屠杀的场面

柯林斯词典

N-UNCOUNT (尤指战争中的)屠杀,残杀
Carnageis the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
1. ...his strategy for stopping the carnage in Kosovo.
  他提出的制止科索沃大屠杀的策略
2. ...the carnage of motorway accidents.
  高速公路车祸导致的大量人员死亡

英英释义

noun

the savage and excessive killing of many people
Synonym:slaughtermassacremass murderbutchery

双语例句

( The death toll in Iraq would be much higher but for breakthroughs in field medicine.) What is more, Americans are not really seeing the carnage.
（如果不是战地医疗取得了突破，在伊死亡人数会高得多。）更重要的是，美国人并没有真正看到屠杀场面。
Though poaching is still a problem, strict laws have reduced this senseless carnage.
虽然偷猎仍是个问题，但严格的法律已使滥杀减少。
When they confronted the next tribe, the Kaibabs, they brought an emissary back to view the carnage.
当他们面对下一个敌人，凯巴布部落前，他们带领对方的使者观摩了一番他们制造的屠场。
That the world went through two world wars in a short span of30 years in the first half of the20th century left mankind with unprecedented carnage and painful lessons.
在20世纪上半叶，不到30年就爆发了两次世界大战，给人类带来空前的浩劫和惨痛的教训。
In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance in his mind the impressions which a scene of carnage and of death must inflict.
在从前的战争中，人至少可以有某种感情、某种兴趣爱好，它们在人的头脑里起到了对屠杀和死亡的场面所必然造成的各种印象进行平衡的作用。
Botched economic policies caused most of the carnage.
拙劣的经济政策导致了绝大部分人的死亡。
If we search for something positive in the carnage created by this financial crisis, it may be that it will provide the impetus for doing what many, including myself, have repeatedly called for: real reform of our regulatory architecture.
如果说我们能从这场金融危机造成的浩劫中找出什么积极因素的话，大概就是它为实现许多人（包括我本人）一再呼吁的事情提供了动力：对我们的监管架构进行彻底的改革。
It's funny how some races see nearly everyone finishing, and others witness carnage.
有趣的是一些比赛几乎所有的人都完赛了，而别的却是连环的退赛。
Even by Chinese standards, this month's carnage has been extraordinary.
即使以中国的标准来看，本月的事故也是非同寻常的。
Imagine the carnage if they ever escaped their cages.
想象一下它们一旦逃出铁笼后会出现的残杀景象！