单词 | terror act |
释义 | > as lemmasterror act terror act n. an act of terrorism; an atrocity committed by a terrorist. ΚΠ 1921 G. Seldes in Chicago Tribune 2/5 The radicals, united with the conservatives, are calling the reported partition ‘a criminal act’, ‘a terror act’, and ‘an act of violence from the league of nations’. 1934 Amer. Mercury Oct. 225/1 Terror acts of such kind were apt to bring down governments in the past. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 243 While the usual terror acts continued, the Jewish representative bodies issued their usual protests. 2001 P. Wilkinson Terrorism versus Democracy iii. 45 International incidents only constitute a tiny minority of the annual total of terror acts world-wide. < as lemmas |
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