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A sanguinary fight, war, or history is one full of violence and killing — bloody in the old, serious sense of the word. It is a heavy, adjective; news reports would more often say bloody or violent. It can describe the event, or sometimes a person who seems hungry for bloodshed. Though actually, you will almost never hear it in casual talk; if a student uses it in speech it can sound like they have swallowed a nineteenth-century novel. Do not mix it up with sanguine, which looks similar but means hopeful and cheerful. They share a Latin root for blood, then pulled far apart.
血腥的、殺伐很重的（書面）
組成From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius, from sanguis (blood): of blood, then of bloodshed.
同家族的字
- sanguinesame Latin root sanguis, blood, but sanguine now means hopeful, not bloody
- sangriaSpanish sangre, blood, from the same Latin word
- consanguinitycon- plus the blood root: related by blood
原始詞典資料5 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。
sanguinaryadj/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
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Involving bloodshed.
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- "[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
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Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"
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Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
sanguinarynoun/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
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A bloodthirsty person.
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The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
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。