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bloodletting ['blʌdletiŋ]    添加到生词本 复制网址
基本释义
  • n. 放血
词形变化
  • 名　词：blood'let'ter
英英解释

  • 　2个名词解释

    1. formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
    2. indiscriminate slaughter
      [同] battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed
      [例]
      • a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered
      • ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name
      • the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder
      • a huge prison battue