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 bloodletting ['blʌd`lɛtɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 放血

[医] 放血


  1. U. S. commanders have conceded that renewed attempts to quell sectarian bloodletting in Baghdad are proving unsuccessful.
    美国司令官已经承认,最近美军在巴格达镇压种族流血事件以失败告终.
  2. U. S commanders have[ conceded that renewed attempts to quell sectarian bloodletting in Baghdad] are proving unsuccessful.
    美军指挥官只得承认在伊拉克的镇压宗教留学行动的计划是不成功的。
  3. Before this century, medicine consisted mainly of amputation saws, morphine and crude remedies that were about as effective as bloodletting.
    在本世纪以前,医疗技术主要是由截肢用锯、啡以及类似放血这样有效的原始疗法所组成的。


bloodletting
[ noun ]
  1. formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

  2. <noun.act>
  3. indiscriminate slaughter

  4. <noun.act>
    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 was ordered


Bloodletting \Blood"let`ting\, n. (Med.)
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by
opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp.
applied to venesection.

  1. "I never gave blood before, but I'm here because of the crisis in the Gulf," says the telephone-company office manager as he and a throng of donors, of all ages, recover from their bloodletting with English tea and biscuits.
  2. Such extensive bloodletting was the price demanded in the wake of the Ultramar deal.
  3. Soft-drink prices are beginning to turn around after several years of deep slashing, suggesting that the bloodletting in the cola wars may be ebbing on that front.
  4. Well into the ceremony the king and queen would come before the assembly to draw their own blood as described by Bishop Landa, collecting it on special bloodletting paper to be burned as an offering.
  5. A saner response would be finally to accept Iraqi offers to negotiate an end to the bloodletting, of course, but the U.S. again seems to have underestimated the Iranian regime.
  6. The effort was no more apparent than when Jackson refused to be drawn into a bloodletting with New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee, and declared Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson.
  7. Around the Lebanese doctor, a veteran of more bad nights than he can recall in Lebanon's relentless bloodletting, the tavern was filled with about 40 people drinking from Habib Ne'aimeh's well-stocked bar during a lull in the shelling.
  8. "If the bloodletting continues, we will have no other option but to respond to the pleas of the population and end their ordeal," Kenaan said in a statement broadcast by all Beirut radio stations.
  9. The prolonged dispute over unification has led to political bloodletting that could hurt him.
  10. Nevertheless, Mr. Jackson reiterated that he doesn't expect any "bloodletting" because of the platform.
  11. Those who hoped for divisive bloodletting "will find the floor is clean," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jackson's platform chief. She predicted it will be easier to reach an accord on defense than on taxes.
  12. Kirk said he will practice law when his term ends in February but that he will not become a "political dropout." He said he expects a "spirited contest" among the candidates to replace him, but brushed aside forecasts of a bloodletting.
  13. He rejects the "moral bloodletting" of former communists and chooses rather to exploit his celebrity by accepting free airline tickets and speaking engagements all over the world, without regard to the assigned topic.
  14. Shiite guerrillas from rival militias rocketed each other's positions Saturday in the slums of south Beirut after Iranian efforts to end 16 days of bloodletting collapsed.
  15. France, the Christians' traditional protector and the colonial power here until independence in 1973, stepped in to avert a new round of bloodletting in a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people since 1975.
  16. But that tolerance died amid the bloodletting of nearly 16 years of civil war.
  17. To implant new variations of protectionism will merely condemn Haitians to the continuation of the inequities of privilege that have led to the decades of murderous vengeance and bloodletting that Father Aristide is responsibly trying to end.
  18. After nine months of bloodletting, the last quarter of this year could be a bit kinder to international bond fund managers.
  19. The two sides fought despite separate efforts by a Christian mediation committee and a Palestinian delegation to end the bloodletting.
  20. In the wake of the disorders and bloodletting, more than 5,000 anti-government students and others have fled cities in Burma's heartland to the Thai-Burmese border, where the Karens have carved out their domain.
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