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 assassin [ә'sæsin]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 暗杀者, 刺客

[法] 暗杀者, 行刺者


  1. He is a cruel assassin.
    他是个残忍的杀手。
  2. The assassin killed the famous person for political reasons.
    刺客因某种政治原因杀了那个知名人士。
  3. He was mowed down by the assassin at point-blank range.
    他被暗杀者的近距离开枪打死。


assassin
[ noun ]
  1. a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

  2. <noun.person>
    his assassins were hunted down like animals
    assassinators of kings and emperors
  3. a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders

  4. <noun.person>


Assassin \As*sas"sin\, n. [F. (cf. It. assassino), fr. Ar.
`hashishin one who has drunk of the hashish. Under its
influence the Assassins of the East, followers of the Shaikh
al-Jabal (Old Man of the Mountain), were said to commit the
murders required by their chief.]
One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret
assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for
defense.


Assassin \As*sas"sin\, v. t.
To assassinate. [Obs.] --Stillingfleet.

  1. Her husband's assassin, Mark David Chapman, said he had decided to kill John Lennon in 1980 after reading an article about the former Beatle in a magazine, Ono said.
  2. This child is guileless enough to be appalled by the war for which he is the pretext, yet canny enough to stay the hand of a determined assassin.
  3. In Geneva, about 150 Kurds demonstrated outside the U.N. office Tuesday, calling for the world body to investigate the alleged gas attacks and shouting "Saddam, assassin," a reference to Iraq's President Saddam Hussein.
  4. The body of the assassin was not found and his vehicle was unrecognizable.
  5. The assassin, who struck Trotsky in the skull with a mountaineer's ice ax after Trotsky returned from a seafood restaurant, spent 20 years in prison.
  6. Panels of five justices each turned down pleas Thursday by Satwant Singh, the only assassin who survived, and Kehar Singh, convicted of helping plot the murder.
  7. The parents, arrested February in Toledo, are accused of conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder for allegedly hiring an assassin and attempting to have the victims' body parts preserved and shipped to Toledo.
  8. In 1881, the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin 11 weeks earlier.
  9. Schrade, whose skull was pierced by one of the assassin's bullets, recalled the moments just beforehand, as RFK thanked well-wishers after a speech: "My own feeling when he was shaking hands was, `We have a president.'
  10. A picture of King and an American flag decorated the large front window of her room, about 25 feet from where the civil rights leader was felled by an assassin's rifle slug.
  11. He shoveled his way through the Government Printing Office's 26 volumes of the Warren Commission Report, which concluded that Oswald was the sole assassin.
  12. A reputed Mafia assassin wanted for nine years has been arrested in what authorities described Monday as one of the biggest blows to the Sicilian underworld in years.
  13. Satwant Singh, who was convicted for pulling the trigger on the weapon that killed her, charged that security men disarmed him and the other alleged assassin, Beant Singh, then fired on them.
  14. Protests and a memorial marked the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death Tuesday in the city where an assassin's bullet felled the civil rights leader 21 year ago.
  15. Officials in Sweden said Stockholm's police chief, who led a futile yearlong search for the assassin of Palme, resigned.
  16. The assassin's car was found abandoned and burned a few hundred yards away.
  17. Tusalp's front-page article, which included the would-be assassin's testimony, was published Monday in the moderate-leftist newspaper.
  18. To Kieser, Romero was a mouse transformed into a tiger, a withdrawn intellectual who gathered courage in response to the horrors around him until he was silenced by an assassin.
  19. Sharing the carcasses between us, we begin the long drag down the hill. In a way, hind-stalking is assassin's work, with the deer unconscious of the danger and of the bullet.
  20. In his own testimony, he said an assassin's bullet would have been preferable to the public hearings over allegations of sexual harassment.
  21. Now, I think I can control my voice." For Lima, the role of Don Jose in "Carmen" is one of the best in all opera partly because a relatively ordinary person is transformed into a passionate assassin.
  22. Portia, wife of the assassin Brutus in "Julius Caesar," 50 miles.
  23. The assassin opened fire on Sen. Luis Carlos Galan as the Liberal Party candidate was about to give a speech before 10,000 people in Soacha, 20 miles south of Bogota.
  24. In 1901, President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
  25. El Universal usually supports the government. A government official denied Mr Colosio was killed by more than one person, and said scores of witnesses believed there had been just one assassin.
  26. When a witness to one of the killings came forward, a would-be assassin shot at him from a rooftop with a high-powered rifle.
  27. Mr Athulathmudali's bodyguards had fired back when the assassin aimed his revolver at the speaker on the platform. A spokesman for the Tamil Tigers in London has denied that the Tigers were involved. The Tigers did have reason to hate Mr Athulathmudali.
  28. The jolliest song of the lot, 'I'm Going to the Lordy', comes from Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, as he climbs to the scaffold.
  29. An assassin pumped five bullets into his lower abdomen, beneath his bullet-proof vest, as he stood on a small platform during a political rally on Bogota's outskirts Friday night.
  30. An assassin in Colombia killed a federal judge on a Medellin street.
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