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单词 killing field
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Definition of killing field in English:

killing field

noun
usually killing fields
  • A place where a heavy loss of life has occurred, typically as the result of massacre or genocide.

    (尤指战时大屠杀、种族清洗或国内动荡造成的)屠场,血洗之地

    the killing fields of southern Africa
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The post-Hitler decades have witnessed the rise of other manifestations of fascism and variations of killing fields across the globe.
    • The bodies of murdered political prisoners continue to be discovered in the military bases of Uruguay and the killing fields of Central America.
    • The plaintiffs painted graphic scenes of the killing fields of El Salvador.
    • Not having evolved a doctrine for trench warfare, they persisted in sending men protected only by cloth into killing fields miles in extent - until wiser politicians refused to send them more men.
    • Instead they act as buffer zones; liminal spaces between the dark violence of the city centre and the equally heartless killing fields otherwise known as nature.
    • A sudden blast of discordant horns shattered the stillness that had settled over the killing fields.
    • Without wavering from the lightness and irony of Daisy's narrative tone, she recounts a story of intense, underage first love, and of a war that turns England's country lanes into killing fields.
    • She took a deep breath and wandered through the downpour like an injured soldier dragging himself through the inevitable killing fields which battle conspired to create.
    • In the killing fields of the countryside, it was worse.
    • These areas have become killing fields where youth increasingly suffer from mal-education, high unemployment, environmental racism and rising influx of drugs and weapons.
    • Oxford is far from the killing fields and the refugee camps.
    • We believe it is obscene that refuges should be turned into killing fields.
    • In front of the car park is a dome structure, at the centre of which is a glass case filled with the broken remains of guns, helmets, Korans and other relics of soldiers' lives collected from these killing fields.
    • My colleague escaped the terrifying experience of the killing fields, earned her doctorate, teaches biology; she nurtured her frail mother and sent her daughter off to grad school.
    • The sites that he photographs were the worst killing fields of Europe.
    • Suddenly the rich natural habitat of the river bed becomes the killing fields of Clonaslee.
    • He knew what he was talking about for he was no stranger to violence, having just come out of the killing fields of the first world war.
    • And the scene repeats itself endlessly in the rural English countryside - the killing fields are truly what they are.
    • Just beyond the city, one will also find the infamous killing fields where thousands upon thousands were put to death.
    • Boys left the playing fields of Eton and went straight to the killing fields of Flanders where (they were told) the challenges would be the same even if the consequences were more deadly.

Definition of killing field in US English:

killing field

nounˈkiliNG fēld
usually killing fields
  • A place where a heavy loss of life has occurred, typically as the result of massacre or genocide during a time of warfare or violent civil unrest.

    (尤指战时大屠杀、种族清洗或国内动荡造成的)屠场,血洗之地

    the killing fields of southern Africa
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She took a deep breath and wandered through the downpour like an injured soldier dragging himself through the inevitable killing fields which battle conspired to create.
    • My colleague escaped the terrifying experience of the killing fields, earned her doctorate, teaches biology; she nurtured her frail mother and sent her daughter off to grad school.
    • The sites that he photographs were the worst killing fields of Europe.
    • Suddenly the rich natural habitat of the river bed becomes the killing fields of Clonaslee.
    • And the scene repeats itself endlessly in the rural English countryside - the killing fields are truly what they are.
    • The bodies of murdered political prisoners continue to be discovered in the military bases of Uruguay and the killing fields of Central America.
    • The post-Hitler decades have witnessed the rise of other manifestations of fascism and variations of killing fields across the globe.
    • These areas have become killing fields where youth increasingly suffer from mal-education, high unemployment, environmental racism and rising influx of drugs and weapons.
    • In the killing fields of the countryside, it was worse.
    • The plaintiffs painted graphic scenes of the killing fields of El Salvador.
    • Just beyond the city, one will also find the infamous killing fields where thousands upon thousands were put to death.
    • We believe it is obscene that refuges should be turned into killing fields.
    • Without wavering from the lightness and irony of Daisy's narrative tone, she recounts a story of intense, underage first love, and of a war that turns England's country lanes into killing fields.
    • Instead they act as buffer zones; liminal spaces between the dark violence of the city centre and the equally heartless killing fields otherwise known as nature.
    • Not having evolved a doctrine for trench warfare, they persisted in sending men protected only by cloth into killing fields miles in extent - until wiser politicians refused to send them more men.
    • A sudden blast of discordant horns shattered the stillness that had settled over the killing fields.
    • Boys left the playing fields of Eton and went straight to the killing fields of Flanders where (they were told) the challenges would be the same even if the consequences were more deadly.
    • He knew what he was talking about for he was no stranger to violence, having just come out of the killing fields of the first world war.
    • In front of the car park is a dome structure, at the centre of which is a glass case filled with the broken remains of guns, helmets, Korans and other relics of soldiers' lives collected from these killing fields.
    • Oxford is far from the killing fields and the refugee camps.
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