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carnage

/kahr-nij/US // ˈkɑr nɪdʒ //UK // (ˈkɑːnɪdʒ) //

大屠杀,屠杀,狂欢,喋喋不休

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
    • : fighting or other violence: brutal carnage on the football field.
    • : great damage, utter defeat, or chaos:We are charting a way forward after the Election Day carnage.
    • : Archaic. dead bodies, as of those slain in battle.

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Examples

  • Excessive speeding was cited as a leading contributor to the carnage.

  • So that’s a little something to keep in mind as we survey the carnage.

  • CNBC has a longer list if you want to feast your eyes on the carnage.

  • No, he found it in one of Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad palaces in 2004, where the rubble and carnage of the early years of America’s war on terror took a toll on Trotter’s mind.

  • I just came back and saw the carnage and went down and saw the same.

  • Female members have been involved in the carnage for the past two years, but never in such an active role.

  • They logged every incident and released depressing day-by-day accounts of the carnage.

  • Here's what we know so far about the man allegedly behind the carnage.

  • When it comes to videos of the carnage that has cost at least 200,000 lives in Syria, few sources have been completely reliable.

  • This astonishingly simple yet devastatingly graphic representation of mass carnage attracts many thousands of visitors every day.

  • Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

  • On either side the carnage had been terrible, and the pathways of the village were literally choked with the dead.

  • The sight of the awful carnage affected even the warworn Marshal, and made him exclaim, "What a massacre!"

  • The carnage was awful, and the charging columns halted, staggered, and then began to reel back.

  • But even in that moment he asked himself for the first time since the commencement of that carnage—to what purpose?