喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈmɜːrdərər/ · /ˈmɜːdərə/兇手；殺人犯

    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.

    示範例句 · Example

    At the end of the book, the detective finally knew who the murderer was.

    逐字在這本書的結尾，那位偵探終於知道兇手是誰了。

    murderer 指「故意殺死別人的人」，重點在「故意」，不是意外。這個字可以想成從 murder（蓄意殺人）加上 -er（做這件事的人）長出來的。跟它很近的字要分清楚：killer 範圍比較寬，新聞常用，不一定是故意的；assassin 用在殺害名人或政治人物；victim 則是「被害的那一方」，跟 murderer 剛好是相反的位置。

    常見搭配

    • a convicted murderer

      被法院判定有罪的殺人犯

      someone a court has decided is guilty of murder

      The report was about a convicted murderer who had been in prison for twenty years.

    • catch the murderer

      抓到兇手

      to find and arrest the person who did it

      Do you think the police will ever catch the murderer?

    • a mass murderer

      殺害很多人的兇手

      someone who has murdered a large number of people

      The article explained the difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer.

    • someone's murderer

      殺害某人的兇手

      the person who murdered them

      He spent years looking for his brother's murderer.

    • the murderer of somebody

      殺害某人的兇手（正式說法）

      the person who murdered a particular person

      The museum has a display about the murderer of the young king.

    用法接近

    killerserial killerassassincriminalsuspectvictim

core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）。

同家族的字

複數 murderers

用法接近

killerserial killerassassincriminalsuspectvictim

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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; […]

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