| 单词 | suicide mission |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuicide mission suicide mission n. (a) colloquial an exceptionally risky or dangerous mission; (b) a military or (now esp.) terrorist mission undertaken with the intention or expectation of dying. ΚΠ 1924 Theatre Mag. June 64/2 He has..paid for his four days' leave by promising to accept a ‘suicide mission’. 1945 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate 16 Apr. 1/4 Any Japanese pilot may be forced to undertake a suicide mission. 1968 S. Yurick Bag ix. 346 He is asked to take on this dangerous assignment (it's put to him on a voluntary basis, of course; the department does not send its men on suicide missions). 2008 Q May 140/2 An astronaut blasting off on a suicide mission, looking back over his life. 2017 O. S. Ghobash Lett. to Young Muslim 136 The greatest crime that some of our clerics commit is to tempt our youth with the promise of heaven if they undertake a suicide mission. < as lemmas |
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