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单词 bloodless
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Definition of bloodless in English:

bloodless

adjective ˈblʌdləsˈblədləs
  • 1(of a revolution or conflict) without violence or killing.

    (革命,冲突)非暴力的,不流血的,兵不血刃的

    a bloodless coup

    不流血政变。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Devolution of function from central government to the stronger local units would have involved an intensification of the land value charges at the expense of income taxes - a bloodless revolution!
    • By mid February he had assumed control of the city in a remarkable bloodless coup.
    • To paraphrase Jefferson, they can effect a bloodless revolution.
    • It is the equivalent of a bloodless coup d' état.
    • If they had succeeded, it would have been a bloodless revolution, and our lives today might be different and immensely better.
    • Britain's class war had been a brief, bloodless skirmish.
    • We need to abandon the fantasy of a bloodless war and get this fight over with, I think.
    • The fact that England's revolution was bloodless implicitly grounds his claim that Enlightenment in Britain differed in significant ways from Enlightenment in France.
    • He cut tax rates from 70 to 28 percent, restored our spirit, rebuilt the armed forces into the most formidable the world had ever seen, and led us to bloodless victory in the Cold War.
    • Nowhere is this link between the form and the content of bloodless revolution more recognizable than in Scott's Old Mortality.
    • This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
    • But bloodless revolutions have been rather rare in Europe.
    • According to this morning's papers, ‘This was a bloodless revolution’ and ‘People power prevailed’.
    • Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president.
    • In three months of daily protests, except for a few instances of arson and the police murdering one protestor, the Black Power revolution was bloodless.
    • A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
    • Landing in France in March 1815, he deposed the Bourbons in a bloodless revolution.
    • The October Revolution was carried through in a nearly bloodless coup by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin.
    • Over 30 countries experienced nearly entirely bloodless revolutions in the span of a few months in 1989-90, and nobody saw it coming.
    • The unusually bloodless conflicts of the past 12 years have made political leaders somewhat risk averse.
    • Much of this economic merriment can be ascribed to the miracle of our virtually bloodless revolution and the government's macro-economic policy.
    Synonyms
    non-violent, peaceful, peaceable, pacifistic, strife-free, conflict-free, harmonious
    orderly, disciplined
  • 2(of the skin) drained of colour.

    无血色的,苍白的

    his bloodless lips

    他苍白的双唇。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her face was white as sheet, her lips bloodless.
    • The skin was thin and bloodless, the fingers spatulate, a swollen knob at each joint and knuckle.
    • Barney whirls on him and glares - eyes big as goose eggs, lips pursed and bloodless.
    • He heard a moan come from her bloodless lips and then the door was shut and his wife cut from his view.
    • His purple eyes are dull, and his skin is as bloodless as a corpse's.
    • She still hadn't said a word, but her face was bloodless, her lips white.
    • Beside her in the passenger's seat, Beth clutches her hands together so hard that the fingers are white and bloodless.
    • The golden-haired man sits on the edge of his couch, drumming his fingers atop the coffee table so hard that his fingertips turn a bloodless white.
    • Sebastian's face was as pale as his hands, nearly bloodless, and pointed in a rather elfin manner.
    • Her hair was pure white, her skin was ivory white, and her lips were almost bloodless.
    • The soul-shattering scream still wrenched from Elaine's bloodless lips.
    • No smile or laughter escaped from those bloodless lips.
    • Her fingers suddenly look anemically bloodless, their paleness complemented by her white long sleeves.
    • His perfectly straight nose was exactly proportionate to his mouth with his almost bloodless lips.
    • His thin, bloodless lips were a pale pink and were in danger of turning white in contrast to his nearly-black dark brown hair.
    • And it was hard enough to think about her in the dream, what with her pale skin and bloodless face.
    • She fell to her knees, small noises escaping her bloodless lips.
    • Blonde hair spilled onto the ground, leading the eye to a bloodless face, the eyes closed and features still.
    • She bit her lower lip, which had gone pale and bloodless.
    • He smiled, a thin sliver of teeth between his bloodless lips.
    Synonyms
    anaemic, pale, wan, pallid, ashen, colourless, chalky, chalk-white, milky, waxen, white, grey
    pasty, sallow, jaundiced, washed out, sickly, peaked, drained, sapped, drawn, deathly, deathlike, ghostlike, white as a sheet
    informal peaky
    rare etiolated
    1. 2.1 (of a person) cold or ruthless.
      (人)无情的,冷血的,残酷的
      a shrewd and bloodless Hollywood mogul
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In pictures he appears bloodless and stern, but in the flesh he is surprisingly normal.
      • Until recently compilations of slave trade statistics have seemed to reduce one of the darkest episodes in world history into a set of abstract and bloodless figures.
      • Oh, and that nuke strike may be the most bloodless terrorist attack in the history of film.
      • Which makes it all the more disappointing that the language used by most start-ups is so cold, so bloodless, so calculating.
      • This woman, this humourless bloodless shambles of a person, was entirely sure that the sign was not open to interpretation by her or anyone else.
      • It may be, then, that I have the makings of a soulless, bloodless, heartless academic in me; it may be that I have no moral sense, no conscience, no shame.
      • Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal.
      • It's cold and bloodless, but efficient and accurate.
      • Neither we nor they seem to understand why this new, bloodless God should even matter.
      • They weren't cruel people - just bigoted, bloodless and closed-minded.
      • Martha is a bloodless engineer in the kitchen, as well as a disciplinarian in the dining room.
      Synonyms
      heartless, unfeeling, cruel
      ruthless, merciless, pitiless, cold, hard, stony-hearted, stony, with a heart of stone, cold-blooded, cold-hearted
      harsh, callous, severe, unmerciful, unpitying, uncaring, unsympathetic, uncharitable
    2. 2.2 Lacking in vitality; feeble.
      无精打采的,没精神的;虚弱的
      a bloodless chorus

      不流血政变。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Giving has an emotional component, after all, and most of the new charity sites still feel a bit bland and bloodless.
      • In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character.
      • It was mechanical, lifeless, bloodless and monotonous, but the material was brilliant.
      • For many, scientific materialism is not a bloodless philosophy but a passionately held ideology.
      • It made him seem rather bloodless, rather passionless.
      Synonyms
      feeble, spiritless, lifeless, passionless, listless, limp, unanimated, languid, half-hearted, unenthusiastic, lukewarm
      bland, vapid, wishy-washy

Derivatives

  • bloodlessly

  • adverbˈblʌdləsliˈblədləsli
    • ‘Things seem to be going as planned, however, not as bloodlessly as I would have liked, ’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The dynasty ended bloodlessly in 751, when Charlemagne's father Pippin appealed to Rome, asking, in effect, who should wear the crown: he who was the puppet or he who truly ruled?
      • His key allies are now in place in the new Commons and the bloodlessly reshuffled government.
      • The crushing of the Commune ended the dominance of French politics by the threat of Parisian uprisings that had begun in 1789, although the practice was revived, bloodlessly, in 1968.
      • Thanks both to fate and the stamina of the Estonian people, the occupation was terminated and independence was re-established virtually bloodlessly.
  • bloodlessness

  • noun ˈblʌdləsnəsˈblədləsnəs
    • An example of the authors' bloodlessness is their assertion that ‘Henry V's troops before the Battle of Agincourt were scared and concerned about the future’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a chilling scene, and, despite its bloodlessness, is difficult to watch.
      • Seen close, she's even more pale than she appeared under club lights two nights ago, and there's a bloodlessness to that pallor that I've never seen but have heard described.
      • As the exhibition notes say, the drawing has ‘an air of sweetness, safety, bloodlessness.’
      • Devotees of slasher flicks will be appalled by the relative bloodlessness.

Definition of bloodless in US English:

bloodless

adjectiveˈblədləsˈblədləs
  • 1(of a revolution or conflict) without violence or killing.

    (革命,冲突)非暴力的,不流血的,兵不血刃的

    a bloodless coup

    不流血政变。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of this economic merriment can be ascribed to the miracle of our virtually bloodless revolution and the government's macro-economic policy.
    • We need to abandon the fantasy of a bloodless war and get this fight over with, I think.
    • Nowhere is this link between the form and the content of bloodless revolution more recognizable than in Scott's Old Mortality.
    • Over 30 countries experienced nearly entirely bloodless revolutions in the span of a few months in 1989-90, and nobody saw it coming.
    • According to this morning's papers, ‘This was a bloodless revolution’ and ‘People power prevailed’.
    • The October Revolution was carried through in a nearly bloodless coup by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin.
    • Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president.
    • If they had succeeded, it would have been a bloodless revolution, and our lives today might be different and immensely better.
    • A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
    • By mid February he had assumed control of the city in a remarkable bloodless coup.
    • Britain's class war had been a brief, bloodless skirmish.
    • To paraphrase Jefferson, they can effect a bloodless revolution.
    • But bloodless revolutions have been rather rare in Europe.
    • It is the equivalent of a bloodless coup d' état.
    • He cut tax rates from 70 to 28 percent, restored our spirit, rebuilt the armed forces into the most formidable the world had ever seen, and led us to bloodless victory in the Cold War.
    • The fact that England's revolution was bloodless implicitly grounds his claim that Enlightenment in Britain differed in significant ways from Enlightenment in France.
    • This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
    • The unusually bloodless conflicts of the past 12 years have made political leaders somewhat risk averse.
    • In three months of daily protests, except for a few instances of arson and the police murdering one protestor, the Black Power revolution was bloodless.
    • Landing in France in March 1815, he deposed the Bourbons in a bloodless revolution.
    • Devolution of function from central government to the stronger local units would have involved an intensification of the land value charges at the expense of income taxes - a bloodless revolution!
    Synonyms
    non-violent, peaceful, peaceable, pacifistic, strife-free, conflict-free, harmonious
  • 2(of the skin or a part of the body) drained of color.

    无血色的,苍白的

    his bloodless lips

    他苍白的双唇。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She still hadn't said a word, but her face was bloodless, her lips white.
    • His perfectly straight nose was exactly proportionate to his mouth with his almost bloodless lips.
    • His purple eyes are dull, and his skin is as bloodless as a corpse's.
    • The golden-haired man sits on the edge of his couch, drumming his fingers atop the coffee table so hard that his fingertips turn a bloodless white.
    • The soul-shattering scream still wrenched from Elaine's bloodless lips.
    • She bit her lower lip, which had gone pale and bloodless.
    • Her hair was pure white, her skin was ivory white, and her lips were almost bloodless.
    • She fell to her knees, small noises escaping her bloodless lips.
    • He heard a moan come from her bloodless lips and then the door was shut and his wife cut from his view.
    • Blonde hair spilled onto the ground, leading the eye to a bloodless face, the eyes closed and features still.
    • His thin, bloodless lips were a pale pink and were in danger of turning white in contrast to his nearly-black dark brown hair.
    • Sebastian's face was as pale as his hands, nearly bloodless, and pointed in a rather elfin manner.
    • Her fingers suddenly look anemically bloodless, their paleness complemented by her white long sleeves.
    • The skin was thin and bloodless, the fingers spatulate, a swollen knob at each joint and knuckle.
    • He smiled, a thin sliver of teeth between his bloodless lips.
    • Barney whirls on him and glares - eyes big as goose eggs, lips pursed and bloodless.
    • Beside her in the passenger's seat, Beth clutches her hands together so hard that the fingers are white and bloodless.
    • No smile or laughter escaped from those bloodless lips.
    • And it was hard enough to think about her in the dream, what with her pale skin and bloodless face.
    • Her face was white as sheet, her lips bloodless.
    Synonyms
    anaemic, pale, wan, pallid, ashen, colourless, chalky, chalk-white, milky, waxen, white, grey
    1. 2.1 (of a person) cold or unemotional.
      (人)无情的,冷血的,残酷的
      a shrewd and bloodless Hollywood mogul
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Which makes it all the more disappointing that the language used by most start-ups is so cold, so bloodless, so calculating.
      • Oh, and that nuke strike may be the most bloodless terrorist attack in the history of film.
      • Until recently compilations of slave trade statistics have seemed to reduce one of the darkest episodes in world history into a set of abstract and bloodless figures.
      • It's cold and bloodless, but efficient and accurate.
      • Neither we nor they seem to understand why this new, bloodless God should even matter.
      • It may be, then, that I have the makings of a soulless, bloodless, heartless academic in me; it may be that I have no moral sense, no conscience, no shame.
      • This woman, this humourless bloodless shambles of a person, was entirely sure that the sign was not open to interpretation by her or anyone else.
      • Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal.
      • Martha is a bloodless engineer in the kitchen, as well as a disciplinarian in the dining room.
      • They weren't cruel people - just bigoted, bloodless and closed-minded.
      • In pictures he appears bloodless and stern, but in the flesh he is surprisingly normal.
      Synonyms
      heartless, unfeeling, cruel
    2. 2.2 Lacking in vitality; feeble.
      无精打采的,没精神的;虚弱的
      their occasionally bloodless chamber jazz
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character.
      • Giving has an emotional component, after all, and most of the new charity sites still feel a bit bland and bloodless.
      • It was mechanical, lifeless, bloodless and monotonous, but the material was brilliant.
      • For many, scientific materialism is not a bloodless philosophy but a passionately held ideology.
      • It made him seem rather bloodless, rather passionless.
      Synonyms
      feeble, spiritless, lifeless, passionless, listless, limp, unanimated, languid, half-hearted, unenthusiastic, lukewarm
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