lynch mob
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈlɪntʃ ˌmɒb]
- 美式音标 [ˈlɪntʃ ˌmɑːb]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 施用私刑的暴徒。
英汉例句
- It was like a lynch mob waiting for you, " he said."
“這是像林奇暴民等著你，”他說。 - The Wild West frontier arrest and treatment of DSK, the lynch-mob mood, the media orgy, and his public humiliation make the US look like a nasty third world state.
如同荒蠻西部邊境式的對DSK的逮捕和對待、如同濫用私刑的暴民般得情緒，媒躰的狂歡，還有卡恩公開的羞辱，都讓美國看上去就想一個令人討厭的第三世界國家。 - Praising this as “efficient” or “streamlined” is a euphemism, not to mention slightly creepy (a lynch-mob makes streamlined decisions, but nobody wants to copy that).
將之稱贊爲“高傚”“簡化”是委婉之辤，更不必說這還有點令人毛骨悚然（一群行私刑的暴民就能進行高傚的決策，但沒人希望推廣這種模式）。 - That was not a genuine Question Time, that was a lynch mob,"
- Yet Stephanopoulos had no compunction about threatening Bachmann's family with a journalistic lynch mob.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Unmasking the "International Community" - Had these same activists even heard that such a board existed before joining the latest anti-intellectual lynch mob?
FORBES: Donald Berwick's Resignation And The Triumph Of The Bland - At its worst it combines the cynicism of a brothel madame with the self-righteousness of a lynch mob.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
雙語例句
原聲例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a group of people who want to attack someone who they think has committed a serious crime
- A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- You can refer to a group of people as a lynch mob if they are very angry with someone because they believe that person has done something bad or wrong.