Genghis Khan 成吉思汗 － 11
They feasted on the supplies they captured. Genghis Khan turned Beijing into a prison. Within the walls, thousands starved to death. The survivors 1 resorted to cannibalism 2. Finally, Genghis Khan's army was ready to attack.
"All who surrender would be spared. Those who did not surrender but opposed with struggle and dissension would be annihilated 3."
Despite enduring months of starvation, the commander of the Chinese army still controlled a formidable garrison 4 with thousands of men and a powerful array of weapons. Genghis Khan knew that few in the first wave of the attack would survive. So he forced captured enemy prisoners to wheel the siege engine forward into the killing 5 zone. It is said that each of his own warriors 6 was given a silk shirt. If the arrow penetrated 7 the body, it took the silk with it, making it easier to draw the arrow out and minimizing the wound.
feast: gorge, devour, consume
cannibalism: act of eating human flesh
annihilate: destroy, demolish; exterminate
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- The war is just like the cannibalism of animals.战争就如同动物之间的互相残。
- They were forced to practise cannibalism in order to survive.他们被迫人吃人以求活下去。
- Our soldiers annihilated a force of three hundred enemy troops. 我军战士消灭了300名敌军。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We annihilated the enemy. 我们歼灭了敌人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The troops came to the relief of the besieged garrison.军队来援救被围的守备军。
- The German was moving to stiffen up the garrison in Sicily.德军正在加强西西里守军之力量。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。