blood-letting

英 [b'lʌdl'etɪŋ] 美 [b'lʌdl'etɪŋ]

• n. 流血事件；只两个群体之间的；尤指敌对双方；互相残杀的暴行

英英释义

名词 bloodletting:

1. formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

2. indiscriminate slaughter

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Whenever blood is spilled in Xinjiang, the state-run media usually pins the blame on what it depicts as sinister forces bent on insurrection.
   每次新疆发生流血事件，国营媒体通常归咎于它所描述的偏好暴乱的邪恶势力。
2. Now you are accursed,and banished from the ground which has opened itsmouth wide to receive your brother's blood,which you have shed.
   你受到控诉，你要被流放，逐离这块吞噬被你残杀的兄弟的鲜血的土地。