CRUELBAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSan extremely cruel and violent action, especially during a war 〔尤指战争中的〕暴行
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atrocity• It was, said Stephen, as appalling an atrocity as you could find.• Any atrocity, at any time, was expected from them.• Now senior officers fear the organisation is limbering up for a wave of further atrocities.• You re left with a vision of atrocityperpetuatingatrocity.• That done, we piously concocted the Nuremberg code to ensure that such atrocities would never be repeated.• It was not until half a century later in the 1990s that these atrocities came to light and created an internationalscandal.• The brutaldestruction of an entirevillage was one of the worstatrocities of the Vietnam war.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ATROCITY | ATROCITY + VERB | ATROCITY + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤appalling, terrible, worst駭人聽聞的/可怕的/最殘忍的暴行◇one of the worst atrocities of the war戰爭最殘忍的暴行之一➤alleged指控的暴行▸➤human rights踐踏人權的暴行▸➤terrorist恐怖主義暴行VERB + ATROCITY➤be responsible for, carry out, commit, perpetrate對暴行負責;實施暴行;犯下暴行◇In the war, both sides committed atrocities.在戰爭中,雙方都犯下暴行。ATROCITY + VERB➤occur, take place暴行發生ATROCITY + NOUN➤stories對暴行的描述PREPOSITION➤atrocity against針對⋯的暴行◇atrocities against the civilian population對平民的暴行➤atrocity by⋯的暴行◇reports of atrocities by gunmen關於持槍歹徒施暴的報道PHRASES➤accounts of atrocities, allegations of atrocities, reports of atrocities對暴行的敍述/指控/報道