carnage

大虐殺、殺戮

多くの人や動物を残虐に殺すことで、大きな破壊を伴うことも多い。

やさしい英語で： The violent killing of many people or animals, often with great destruction.

• The attack caused terrible carnage.
• Doctors struggled to help the victims of the carnage.
• The film shows the carnage of war.

類義語： slaughter, massacre

よく使う表現： terrible carnage, cause carnage, scene of carnage

大混乱

何もかも混乱し、混み合ったり制御できなくなったりしている状況。

やさしい英語で： A situation in which everything is confused, crowded, or out of control.

• The kitchen was absolute carnage.
• A broken traffic light caused carnage at the junction.
• There was carnage when the shop opened its sale.

類義語： chaos, mayhem

反対語： order

よく使う表現： absolute carnage, traffic carnage, cause carnage

虐殺の残骸

多くの人や動物が残虐に殺された後に残る死体や血。

やさしい英語で： The dead bodies and blood left after many people or animals have been violently killed.

• Bodies lay amid the carnage.
• The soldiers looked away from the carnage on the ground.
• Workers spent days clearing the carnage from the battlefield.

よく使う表現： survey the carnage, clear the carnage, amid the carnage

どんちゃん騒ぎ、深酒

大量に酒を飲むことと、その後の乱れや体調不良。

やさしい英語で： A period of very heavy drinking and the mess or sickness that follows.

• Friday night was pure carnage at the pub.
• He slept all day after the drunken carnage.
• Empty bottles were all that remained of the weekend carnage.

類義語： binge, bender

よく使う表現： weekend carnage, drunken carnage, night of carnage