参考词典中bloodletting的常规释义:
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
- formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
- 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
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