c. 1600, from Middle French carnage (16c.), from Old Italian carnaggio "slaughter, murder," from Medieval Latin carnaticum "flesh," from Latin carnaticum "slaughter of animals," from carnem (nominative caro) "flesh," originally "a piece of flesh," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). In English always used more of slaughters of men than beasts. Southey (1795) tried to make a verb of it.
雙語例句
1. He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart.
他說種族間的相互殘殺正在讓這個國家走向分裂。
來自柯林斯例句
2. History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers.
歷史敘述把大屠殺簡縮成了冷冰冰的數(shù)字。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a scene of carnage
大屠殺的場面
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.