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carnage

英 ['kɑːnɪdʒ] 美 ['kɑrnɪdʒ]

解释

n. 大屠杀；残杀；大量绝灭

※ 提供单词"carnage"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

carnage 大屠杀

来自词根carn, 肉，来自PIE *sker, 砍，切，词源同saw, shear. -age, 集合名词后缀。

英文词源

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.

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例句和用法

1. He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart.: 他说种族间的相互残杀正在让这个国家走向分裂。

2. History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers.: 历史叙述把大屠杀简缩成了冷冰冰的数字。

3. a scene of carnage: 大屠杀的场面

4. Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.: 难民越过边界逃避国内的大屠杀.

5. The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage.: 战场完全是一片大屠杀的惨象.