terrorist
terrorist 英 [ˈterərɪst] 美 [ˈtɛrərɪst]
n. 恐怖主义者，恐怖分子
名词复数:terrorists
- Someone who uses violence, mayhem, and destruction — or the threat of those things — to coerce people or countries into taking a certain action is a terrorist. A terrorist may be motivated by religious fervor, politics, or just plain old-fashioned greed.
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- n. 恐怖主义者，恐怖分子
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1. The terrorist demanded money from the child's parents.
恐怖分子向孩子的父母勒索钱财。
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2. The terrorist drove the car straight through the shop window.
那名恐怖分子驾车径直冲进了商店橱窗。
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3. The police barred the exits in an attempt to prevent the terrorist's escape.
警察堵住了各出口，以防恐怖分子逃跑。
- terrorist (n.) in the modern sense, 1944, especially in reference to Jewish tactics against the British in Palestine -- earlier it was used of extremist revolutionaries in Russia who attempted to demoralize the government by terror (1866); and Jacobins during the French Revolution (1795) -- from French terroriste; see terror + -ist (also see terrorism).
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