(noun.) the savage and excessive killing of many people.
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双语例句
My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughter of our men that even success would not justify. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The living spirit of the republic, it seemed, had sprung from a slaughter of royalists and the execution of the king. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Fall back; these misguided men shall not be slaughtered, while I am your general. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The slaughtered bull is dragged away, and another is let out from the stall. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
An animal thus characterized has been slaughtered, but the breeder has gone with confidence to the same stock and has succeeded. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The process of slaughtering and dressing pork, as practiced to-day, is a continuous one, and is well illustrated in Fig. 170, in 13 operations. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
The Revolutionary Tribunal went to work, and a steady slaughtering began. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He could see them as he walked from home that night (to the Old Slaughters', where he put up when in town) shining white in the moon. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Some one inquired at the Slaughters' regarding him, where it was said that he and his friend Captain Dobbin had left town. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I've done it, said George, coming into the Slaughters' an hour afterwards, looking very pale. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
When he got back to the Slaughters', the roast fowl was of course cold, in which condition he ate it for supper. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
He grudged the time lost between Piccadilly and his old haunt at the Slaughters', whither he drove faithfully. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
He was very melancholy that night in the coffee-room at the Slaughters'; and drank a good deal, as his comrades remarked there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.