| 单词 | mow somebody ↔ down |
| 释义 | mow somebody ↔ downmow somebody ↔ down phrasal verbphr v informal a) PMKILLto kill large numbers of people at the same time, especially by shooting them 大量杀死〔尤指射杀〕，扫杀 The soldiers were mown down by machine-gun fire. 士兵们被机枪扫倒。 b) to kill someone by driving into them fast 开车撞死 He was sentenced to two years in prison for mowing down a nine-year old girl. 他因撞死一名九岁女孩而被判处两年徒刑。 Examples from the Corpus mow down• But he did not mow her down.• But if your men attack we shall mow them down.• We have grown too good, kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns, starve them out of existence. → mow somebody ↔ down at mow(2) |
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