英文词汇“草菅人命”的读音、释义、例句、中文翻译及雅思托福GRE难词速记-英汉词典

单词

草菅人命

释义

草菅人命cǎo jiān rén mìng

act with utter dis regard for haman life; cut people down like grass;have (/show) complete disregard (/scanty regard)for human life; kill off people like rooting out wild grass (/like weeding out weeds); make light of the lives of the people; put people to death at the slightest pretence (/slimmest offense); tramp upon human life as if it were mere grass;treat human life as grass(/as if it were not worth a straw/as no more than weeds); wanton destruction of human life
❍ 兴以～，罚作畜。(《聊斋志异·三生》1331)Then,because he had made light of the lives of his people,he was condemned to be born again as a brute beast.
❍ 想我们为官之人，上报国家，下安黎民，这样～，卑府实难从命！(朱素臣《十五贯》37)As servants of the state,we are responsible to the court above and to the people below. I cannot obey your order if it means showing no regard for human life.
❍ 全是这样～的狗官。(田汉《关汉卿》 8)You see them everywhere—these venal officials who tramp upon human life as if it were mere grass!/满洲人早在窥伺了，国内却是草菅民命，杀戮清流，做了第一种。(《鲁迅选集》Ⅲ—259) While the Manchus were waiting ready to pounce,inside China they treated human life as grass and slaughtered good citizens—this is the first type.

草菅人命

act with utter disregard for human life; treat human life as if it were not worth a straw;treat human life as no more than grass

草菅人命cǎo jiān rén mìnɡ

草菅：野草。把杀人看作如割草一样。指任意残害人命。treat human life as if it were not worth a straw, act with utter disregard for human life, treat human life as no more than weeds

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