喜樂美語
  1. 1血腥的、殺伐很重的（書面）

    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.

core核心畫面

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，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。

sanguinaryadj/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

  • 1

    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."
  • 2

    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; […]"
  • 3

    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/

  • 1

    A bloodthirsty person.

  • 2

    The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).

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