詞匯精選:assassinate的用法和辨析
一、詳細(xì)釋義:
v.
暗殺,行刺 [T]
例句:
The police have captured the man who tried to assassinate the ambassador.
警方已逮捕企圖暗殺大使的人。
例句:
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
他指控反對黨密謀暗殺教皇。
二、詞義辨析:
kill,murder,slaughter,massacre,assassinate,execute
這些動詞均有“殺,殺死”之意。 kill普通用詞,含義廣泛,泛指以任何方式使人、動物或植物死亡。 murder指謀殺或兇殺。 slaughter本義指大批宰殺動物,也指像屠宰牲畜一樣一次殺死許多人。 massacre語氣比slaughter強(qiáng)。指大屠殺,尤指屠殺失去了自衛(wèi)能力的人。 assassinate通常指因政治原因用非法手段殺害政治領(lǐng)袖人物或短名人士。 execute指依法處死罪犯。
三、參考例句:
Perhaps they intend to assassinate me.
也許他們是想行刺我。
a plot to assassinate the president
一個(gè)刺殺總統(tǒng)的陰謀
They were plotting how they would assassinate the president.
他們正秘密策劃將如何暗殺總統(tǒng)。
The police have uncovered a plot to assassinate the president.
警方已揭露了一個(gè)行刺總統(tǒng)的陰謀。
The angry man was going to assassinate the king.
這個(gè)憤怒的人準(zhǔn)備刺殺國王。
The police have captured the man who tried to assassinate the ambassador.
警方已逮捕企圖暗殺大使的人。
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the pope.
他曾指責(zé)各反對黨策劃陰謀暗殺教皇。
The intelligence service conceived a grand design to assassinate the War Minister.
情報(bào)機(jī)構(gòu)策劃了一項(xiàng)暗殺陸軍部長的重大計(jì)劃。
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
他指控反對黨密謀暗殺教皇。
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