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assassin

/uh-sas-in/US // əˈsæs ɪn //UK // (əˈsæsɪn) //

刺客,暗杀者,杀手,剌客

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a murderer, especially one who kills a politically prominent person for fanatical or monetary reasons.
    • : one of an order of Muslim fanatics, active in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1272, whose chief object was to assassinate Crusaders.

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Examples

  • Throughout the 1970s, its hallways swarmed with traffickers, assassins and celebrities.

  • The assassins on boda-bodas easily disappear after eliminating their targets.

  • He’s a capable assassin with such calm composure you’d never realize he’s dying from a disease.

  • She takes the boy under her wing and the two struggle to survive as assassins close in, setting the surrounding forest ablaze.

  • Spymasters give clues that lead their teams through a minefield of words that belong to the opposing teams and the dreaded assassin.

  • But the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin.

  • There was no assassin but despite the overwhelming presence of troops and FBI agents, violent incidents still occurred.

  • He karate-chops a final stray assassin, then they exchange vows.

  • Early scenes show her in an all-white suit, ambushing an assassin.

  • Indeed, every Assassin's Creed game—aside from a small segment of one—has had a man as its center.

  • He received the blow on his arm, grappled with the assassin, and throwing him on the ground despatched him with his own dagger.

  • Then, after all the inquiries you instituted, you were really unable to point to the actual assassin?

  • If you are so certain that Enid Orlebar is implicated in the affair, if not the actual assassin, why don't you interrogate her?

  • The assassin gallops away upon his mare, and seeks by night to cross the Rhone.

  • Yes, with the eyes of a veritable assassin, for at that moment M. Joyeuse is dreaming a terrible dream.