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."
“这是像林奇暴民等着你,”他说。 - 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.
如同荒蛮西部边境式的对DSK的逮捕和对待、如同滥用私刑的暴民般得情绪,媒体的狂欢,还有卡恩公开的羞辱,都让美国看上去就想一个令人讨厌的第三世界国家。 - 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).
将之称赞为“高效”“简化”是委婉之辞,更不必说这还有点令人毛骨悚然(一群行私刑的暴民就能进行高效的决策,但没人希望推广这种模式)。 - 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
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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.