| 释义 | 
		witch-huntˈwitch-hunt noun [countable]    - The investigation is just another political witch-hunt.
 
 - And for Rome to acquiesce in such witch-hunts must indicate that Rome herself felt threatened.
 - But the end of McCarthy by no means meant the end of the witch-hunt.
 - He does not want the army to feel that it is the subject of a witch-hunt.
 - His accusation got nowhere, but it foreshadowed the witch-hunt.
 - McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt had been unleashed with the support of leading Republicans and had undoubtedly helped to elect Eisenhower in 1952.
 - Nor did a demagogue emerge to match Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose cynical witch-hunts in the l950s put a generation on trial.
 
    an attempt to find and punish people in a society or organization whose opinions are regarded as wrong or dangerous – used to show disapproval:   anti-Communist witch-hunts  |