单词 | death camp |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath camp death camp n. a camp in which many people die or are killed, (now) esp. a prison camp for political prisoners or prisoners of war. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > concentration camp > type of death camp1849 extermination camp1945 1849 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 27 Feb. 2/1 The death-camp of the emigrants at the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846. 1865 Ritual Knights Golden Circle in B. Pitman Trials for Treason at Indianapolis 301/2 The rank poison which..swathes the heated brow in the death camp. 1902 W. J. Abbot Amer. Merchant Ships & Sailors vi. 212 When Melville..reached the spot of the death camp, he came upon a sorrowful scene. 1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 204 In the course of a three-day ‘liquidation’..the Germans killed more than 1,000 Jews in ‘death camps’. 1971 R. Mandell Nazi Olympics ix. 272 She sued a journalist who claimed that Leni..had gone to a death camp to select a group of Gypsies to be extras. 2004 R. Rash Saints at River (2005) 143 Women who'd seen so many of their family members and friends die in Pol Pot's death camps that they had willed themselves blind. < as lemmas |
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