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Killed, especially in a violent or dramatic way — this is the form of the verb 'slay' that comes after 'has,' 'have,' or 'was' ('slay, slew, slain'). You'll see it a lot in news headlines, old stories, poems, and religious texts, but almost never in everyday spoken conversation, where people would just say 'killed.' It gives a sentence a more serious, dramatic, or old-fashioned feeling.
被殺害(較文學、正式,slay 的過去分詞)
組成The past participle of the verb 'slay' (slay → slew → slain).
原始詞典資料2 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。
slainnoun/sleɪ̯n/
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Those who have been killed.
- […]Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man ¶ May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, ¶ Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; ¶ Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, ¶ A bony heap, through ages to remain, ¶ Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast ¶ Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.
- While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain, they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。