bloodletting是什么意思？

bloodletting

英[ˈblʌdletɪŋ] 美[ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ]

• n. 放血；

例句

• Yet within the New Bond Street saleroom, collectors went on bidding, oblivious to the bloodletting without. 但是在位于新邦德街的销售厅中, 收藏家们继续竞相出价, 对外面的惨烈不以为意.
• It'seems keener on blood transfusions than on bloodletting. 相比于给经济放血,它看起来更热衷于给它输血.
• Many extremists decided to end the bloodletting. 许多极端分子决定为放血行动画上休止符.
• Which kind of leech ( leech ) can be a bloodletting treat. 哪种水蛭 ( 蚂蝗 ) 可以作为放血治疗.
• Bloodletting has been renamed to Improved Rend once again, and doesn't affect Bloodbath anymore. 放血重命名为增强割裂, 并且不再影响血浴.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  （尤指敌军之间的）武力冲突，流血事件，杀戮
  Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  例句
  Once again there's been ferocious blood-letting in the township. 镇区再次发生了残忍的流血事件。
• N-UNCOUNT
  （新闻用语）内讧，同室操戈
  Journalists sometimes refer to a bitter quarrel between two groups of people from within the same organization as blood-letting.
  例句
  Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be reached without much blood letting. 有望在不引起严重内讧的情况下达成一个满意的解决方案。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
  2. indiscriminate slaughter