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Assassination is the act of murdering an important person. It names the event, not the person who did it: the assassin does the killing; the assassination is the killing. You hear it in news and history — “the assassination of…” — and it sounds very serious. Though actually, English also uses character assassination: a planned attack on someone’s name with and ugly stories, not with a weapon. Same shape of a hit, different kind of harm.
暗殺(事件)
組成From assassinate + -ion. The ending -ion names the act.
同家族的字
- assassinthe person who carries out the killing
- assassinatethe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
assassinationnoun/əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
- The assassination of the king occurred at night.
- But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。