witch-hunt

英 [ˈwɪtʃ hʌnt]

美 [ˈwɪtʃ hʌnt]

n.  (对被认为持不为社会所接受或危及社会政见者的)搜捕，政治迫害

复数：witch-hunts　

牛津词典

noun

• （对被认为持不为社会所接受或危及社会政见者的）搜捕，政治迫害
  an attempt to find and punish people who hold opinions that are thought to be unacceptable or dangerous to society

柯林斯词典

• (针对异见群体的)迫害，搜捕，“猎巫”
  Awitch-huntis an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong.

英英释义

noun

• searching out and harassing dissenters

双语例句

• Next Mr Cain complained, and some of his friends agreed, that the story was not a case of the newspapers doing their job but a racist "witch-hunt".
  之后该隐先生申诉说，那则报导那则新闻不是一个新闻报纸应该做的分内之事，而是种族主义的政治迫害，他的一些朋友也同意这样的说法。
• However, social and legal factors are only necessary conditions of witch-hunt but not sufficient conditions of witch-hunt, not enough to arouse and sustained such a movement. From these points of view, it is difficult to fully explain the reasons of witch-hunt.
  但社会和法律因素仅仅只是猎巫的必要条件而不是充分条件，不足以激起和维持这样一场运动，从这些角度出发，很难完全解释产生猎巫的原因。
• Mr Tron denies any wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt.
  特隆否认自己犯了任何错误，并称他是排除异己活动的受害者。
• Nor do I have any illusion that public or private prosecutions will resolve bigger structural flaws ( in fact, a witch-hunt might be a media distraction).
  同时对于公共或私人诉讼将解决更大的结构性问题，我也不抱任何幻想实际上，政治迫害可能只是媒体的一种消遣。
• His response reveals the real reason why politicians have launched a witch-hunt against speculators.
  他的回应揭示了政界人物对投机者发起攻击的真实原因。
• "Whatever the challenges that beset our society we should not resort to the dangerous ways of intellectual censure and religious witch-hunt," added Dr Abdul Bari.
  阿卜杜拉·巴里补充到：“无论我们遇到的困扰社会的挑战是什么，我们都不应该采取思想责难和宗教上的政治迫害这样危险的方式。”。
• I immediately felt that this was a witch-hunt and that Hamid was gonna pay a high price.
  我立刻意识到这是政治迫害，而哈密德将要付出高额代价。
• These bloody trials have been the historical event what we call witch-hunt.
  这些血腥的审判构成了被我们称之为猎巫的历史事件。
• To explain why the great European witch-hunt took place, historians have done a lot of research on its social context and legal foundations.
  为了解释欧洲的大猎巫为何得以发生，历史学家们对它的社会背景和法律基础进行了大量的研究。
• Zhu is representative of countless Chen fans, quietly supportive and awaiting his return, whose voices were rarely heard in the media witch-hunt that followed the scandal.
  朱正是陈冠希不计其数的粉丝中的典型代表，他们静静地支持着自己的偶像，等待着他的复出，而在爆出艳照门之后的媒体报道中，他们的声音几乎很少被听到。