| 单词 | suicide bomber |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuicide bomber suicide bomber n. (a) a piloted aircraft loaded with explosives which deliberately crashes into an enemy target (cf. kamikaze n. 2a) (now rare); (b) a person who carries out a military or (now esp.) terrorist bomb attack with the intention or expectation of dying in the process. ΚΠ 1935 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 3 Dec. 8/2 Some of those suicide bombers might be diverted by air-defense guns on the warships. 1941 New Yorker 20 Dec. 12/2 Why, a man like Kelly is a bigger threat to an enemy than any suicide bomber. 1961 Internat. Affairs 37 351 He is able to enliven his narrative with personal recollections of the ordeal undergone by the ships subjected to the ‘desperate fury’ of the Kamikaze suicide bombers. 1979 Sci., Technol., & Human Values 4 37 The attempt of a demented suicide-bomber to blow up a fully-loaded transatlantic passenger flight. 2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) x. 52 The police deduced that the suicide bombers had been in regular radio contact. < as lemmas |
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