honour killing
基本解釋
- 榮譽(yù)謀殺（指兇手謀殺家庭成員以達(dá)到挽廻家族榮譽(yù)的目的）
英漢例句
- 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(yán)厲，德裡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(yù)謀殺至少有部分人堅(jiān)持，因爲(wèi)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(jì)之後，我們英國人和法國人也許仍在勇敢地維護(hù)著魔鬼的榮譽(yù)法典，繼續(xù)誇耀武力，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
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
英英字典
- 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