英语词汇killing fields的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	killing fields
词源	killing fields. The term is used today for any place where a horrific mass execution has taken place, often of civilians dur- ing or just after a war. Killing fields was first recorded in the New York Times in 1983 in reference to Pol Pot’s murderous Khmer Rouge killing of 3 million Cambodians a decade earlier. A year later, the graphic film The Killing Fields gave the phrase a permanent place in the language of war.
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