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killing fields

/kil ing feeld/US // ˈkɪl ɪŋ ˌfild //

杀戮场,杀人场,杀戮战场,杀戮的领域

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Usually kil·ling fields [kil ing feeldz] /ˈkɪl ɪŋ ˌfildz/ .

    • : a site of indiscriminate and cruel killing of large numbers of people, especially a place of wartime genocide: The concentration camps of Germany and the killing fields of Cambodia are graphic displays of the presence of evil in our world.
    • : a dangerous place where an excessive number of people have died, as by murder, riots, or drug overdose: Some 300 lives are violently ended each year on the killing fields of New York's streets and sidewalks, about half of them pedestrians or cyclists.

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Examples

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.

  • The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.

  • Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

  • And similar shards of enthusiasm-killing kryptonite are lodged in John Kasich, Mike Pence and Ted Cruz.

  • He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.

  • We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.

  • There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.

  • The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.

  • Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.