1[countableC, uncountableU]SCCPM when a lot of people are killed violently, especially people who cannot defend themselves 大屠杀
the only survivor of the massacre
这场大屠杀的唯一幸存者
massacre of
the massacre of several hundred pro-democracy demonstrators
对数百名拥护民主的示威者进行的屠杀
the Boston/Peterloo/Harperville etc massacre
the infamous Peterloo massacre of 1819
臭名昭著的1819年彼得卢大屠杀
2[countableC] informalDSLOSE A GAME, COMPETITION, OR WAR a very bad defeat in a game or competition 〔在比赛或竞争中的〕惨败
United lost in a 9–0 massacre.
联队以0比9惨败。
Examples from the Corpus
massacre• Chong plays a reporter who survives a massacre in the opening scenes, then tells her story on videotape.• The situation is probably a cyclic one anyway, with man only partly responsible for the presentcoralmassacre.• I think the hugescalemassacre of pheasants is revolting.• A charred babycarriage still stood on the altarsteps, exactly where it had been found after the massacre.• He may have brought only dishonour to the name of the county but his involvement in the massacre should not be forgotten.• In the massacres that followed, however, thousands died.• The students claimed the two men had ordered the massacre of 200 people in Kwangju.• The soldiers who carried out the massacre have not been identified.• The bombing of Dresden was one of the worstmassacres in Europeanhistory.