killing field

基本解釋

In 2000 his career in presidential politics apparently died in the killing fields of South Carolina.
2000年，他的總統(tǒng)競選之路在競爭激烈的南卡洛萊那州走到了盡頭。
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Only now is the country beginning to put the mechanism in place to bring those responsible for the "killing fields" to justice.
現(xiàn)在國家剛剛開始落實(shí)各項機(jī)制，將那些制造“殺人場“的人繩之以法。
That looks suspiciously convenient for Cambodia’s current rulers and their cronies, anxious to avoid close scrutiny of their parts in the killing fields.
這似乎有為柬埔寨當(dāng)前統(tǒng)治者和他們的摯友行方便之嫌，因?yàn)檫@些人都想避免由于自身在殺戮事件中的角色而接受嚴(yán)格調(diào)查。

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She has been involved in causes, and spoken and led workshops in and about Cambodian orphans in the post-Killing Fields era.
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People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.