詞彙精選：assassinate的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
v.
暗殺，行刺 [T]
例句：
The police have captured the man who tried to assassinate the ambassador.
警方已逮捕企圖暗殺大使的人。
例句：
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
他指控反對黨密謀暗殺教皇。
二、詞義辨析：
kill,murder,slaughter,massacre,assassinate,execute
這些動詞均有“殺，殺死”之意。kill普通用詞，含義廣泛，泛指以任何方式使人、動物或植物死亡。murder指謀殺或兇殺。slaughter本義指大批宰殺動物，也指像屠宰牲畜一樣一次殺死許多人。massacre語氣比slaughter強。指大屠殺，尤指屠殺失去了自衛能力的人。assassinate通常指因政治原因用非法手段殺害政治領袖人物或短名人士。execute指依法處死罪犯。
三、參考例句：
Perhaps they intend to assassinate me.
也許他們是想行刺我。
a plot to assassinate the president
一個刺殺總統的陰謀
They were plotting how they would assassinate the president.
他們正祕密策劃將如何暗殺總統。
The police have uncovered a plot to assassinate the president.
警方已揭露了一個行刺總統的陰謀。
The angry man was going to assassinate the king.
這個憤怒的人準備刺殺國王。
The police have captured the man who tried to assassinate the ambassador.
警方已逮捕企圖暗殺大使的人。
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the pope.
他曾指責各反對黨策劃陰謀暗殺教皇。
The intelligence service conceived a grand design to assassinate the War Minister.
情報機構策劃了一項暗殺陸軍部長的重大計劃。
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
他指控反對黨密謀暗殺教皇。
