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/ˈmɜːrdərər/ · /ˈmɜːdərə/
Someone who kills another person on purpose. Doing this is a serious crime, so the police look for the person and a court decides what happens to them.
兇手；殺人犯
複數 murderers
核心畫面
Picture the person the police are looking for after a body is found — someone who killed another person deliberately, not by accident. The word names a role in a crime story: the one who did it on purpose, who gets hunted, arrested, and judged in court.
可以想成命案發生後警方在追的那個人：他殺了另一個人，而且是有意的，不是意外或過失。這個字指的是一個角色——故意動手的…更多收起
可以想成命案發生後警方在追的那個人：他殺了另一個人，而且是有意的，不是意外或過失。這個字指的是一個角色——故意動手的那一個，會被追查、被逮捕、由法庭決定下場。「故意」是關鍵：出車禍撞死人的駕駛不會被叫 murderer，那是另一組字（killed someone in an accident）。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。
murderernoun/ˈmɜːdəɹə/
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A person who commits murder.
- Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
- It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; […]
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。