honour killing

基本解釋

To get tough on honour killing, the government in Delhi has mooted a new law.
光榮死亡這一案例變得很嚴厲，德里的政府部門提供一條新的法條供討論。
As events in Karora suggest, honour-killing persists at least partly because many villagers approve of it.
正如卡羅拉事件表明，榮譽謀殺至少有部分人堅持，因為很多村民贊成這種做法。
Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devili's code of honour .
幾世紀之后，我們英國人和法國人也許仍在勇敢地維護著魔鬼的榮譽法典，繼續(xù)夸耀武力，繼續(xù)互相殘殺。

Though she had been raped and tortured, Captain Wake ordered her to be shot—or, if the captain's later suggestion is to be believed, she herself shot her, since the Maquisards' sense of honour permitted her rape but not her killing.
ECONOMIST: Nancy Wake

a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition