ethnic cleansing
ethnic cleansing — 名詞
1. a planned effort by one racial or religious group to drive out, or sometimes kil
種族清洗
強迫驅逐或殺害某地區特定族群以求單一族群
a planned effort by one racial or religious group to drive out, or sometimes kill, all the people of another group living in a region so that only their own group remains
The court ruled that the army's attacks on the villages amounted to ethnic cleansing.
法院裁定，軍隊對那些村莊的攻擊構成種族清洗。
amounted to ethnic cleansing — describing an act as this crime
Thousands of families fled across the border to escape the ethnic cleansing.
成千上萬個家庭逃過邊境，以躲避這場種族清洗。
flee to escape the ethnic cleansing — typical victim context
Niran reported on the ethnic cleansing for an international newspaper.
Niran 為一家國際報社報導這場種族清洗。
report on the ethnic cleansing — journalistic context
World leaders condemned the ethnic cleansing and demanded that it stop at once.
各國領袖譴責這場種族清洗，並要求立即停止。
condemn the ethnic cleansing — collocation with official response
Historians have studied the ethnic cleansing that emptied the city of its minority population.
歷史學家研究了這場讓全城少數族群消失的種族清洗。
- carry out ethnic cleansing
- commit ethnic cleansing
- victims of ethnic cleansing
- campaign of ethnic cleansing
- genocide
stronger; centres on mass killing aimed at destroying a whole people, while ethnic cleansing centres on forced removal
- expulsion
neutral term for forcing people out; lacks the racial-targeting and violence built into ethnic cleansing
- deportation
official removal across a border; can be lawful, whereas ethnic cleansing is always a crime
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable and used in serious news, legal, or historical contexts. Common verbs are 'carry out', 'commit', 'condemn', and 'amount to'; the agent is usually an army, militia, or government.
常見錯誤
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常見搭配
名詞搭配
- campaign of ethnic cleansing
- victims of ethnic cleansing
- acts of ethnic cleansing
常用片語
- carry out ethnic cleansing
- commit ethnic cleansing
- condemn ethnic cleansing
- amount to ethnic cleansing