atrocity

noun

1. （尤指战争中的）残暴行为
   a cruel and violent act, especially in a war

1. N-VAR 暴行；滔天罪行
   An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
   1. The killing was cold-blooded, and those who committed this atrocity should be tried and punished.
      杀戮异常残暴。那些犯下如此暴行的人都应该受到审判和惩罚。

1. The killing was cold-blooded, and those who committed this atrocity should be tried and punished.
   杀戮异常残暴。那些犯下如此暴行的人都应该受到审判和惩罚。
2. No treason to mankind since the organization of society would be equal in atrocity to that of him who would lift his hand to destroy it.
   自从社会有组织以来，没有谁对人类的背叛在凶残上可等同某人举起其手试图破坏我们联盟的行为。
3. Like every-one else he was paralyzed with grief at what had happened& how could somebody inflict such an appalling atrocity on the city that is the most full of love of anywhere in the world?
   他和每个人一样，对所发生的事感到哀伤，不知所措&怎么会有人对全世界最充满爱的城市下此毒手？
4. It's an atrocity, and the design professions don't even know they do it.
   这是一种'残暴'。设计这个专业甚至不知道是他们造成的这个问题。
5. We must be very careful not to commit an atrocity by bombing Teheran.
   我们必须非常小心，不要因为轰炸德黑兰而造成一次大失策。
6. The release of the man convicted of the worst terrorist atrocity in the U.K.elicited protests in the U.
   这位英国最严重恐怖主义事件的制造者被释放的消息激起了美国方面的抗议，但很多利比亚人却对此感到高兴。
7. They were shocked by the atrocity of his crimes.
   他们被他们的罪行的残暴所震惊。
8. There is no atrocity which could be made a ground for blaming a great man.
   谁是一个伟大的人物，谁就不用担心会因他的过失遭到谴责。
9. He mentioned the various instances, many of them marked with circumstances of atrocity.
   他提到各种案例，其中有许多起案情残酷。
10. The father of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity.
    洛克比爆炸案中一名受害者的父亲已到达利比亚，会见（？）此案中唯一被定罪的嫌犯。
11. The atrocity of the manager's actions appalled everybody.
    管理员行为的残暴使所有人胆寒。
12. Other atrocities would have happened in the Mao era, but perhaps not this kind of an atrocity.
    其他恶劣的行为会在毛时代发生，但可能也不会像这个时间这么恶劣。
13. The new library building is an atrocity.
    那幢新建的图书馆大楼难看极了。
14. The cruelty and atrocity of "9 · 11" terrorists attack has changed the Bush Administration's cognition of security threat, and combating international terrorists becomes the top priority of its foreign policy.
    9·11恐怖袭击的血腥和残暴改变了布什政府对安全威胁的认知，打击国际恐怖活动成为美国对外政策的重点。
15. Furthermore, it proposes that the psychological response to the war presented in the diary forcefully reflects the Nazi atrocity.
    此外，密室成员在战争中表现出的精神状态也间接反映了战争的残酷和无情。第二章：安妮日记体裁的特点。
16. Macbeth is less a Senecan atrocity than a dramatic exploration of human psyche, which is based, to a large extent, upon the audience's "horrible imaginings".
    《麦克白》不只是一般意义上的塞尼加式的宫廷悲剧；它在某种程度上是对人类精神世界的探索；
17. The Jingxing coal mine under the Japanese atrocity
    日本枪刺下的井陉煤矿
18. Abstract: The large-scaled bacteriological war is the unprecedented anti-human atrocity by the Japanese fascists.
    大规模实施细菌战，是日本法西斯犯下的空前的反人类的战争罪行。

noun

1. an act of atrocious cruelty

   Synonym:    inhumanity

2. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

   Synonym:    atrociousnessbarbaritybarbarousnessheinousness