killing field

基本解释

In 2000 his career in presidential politics apparently died in the killing fields of South Carolina.
2000年，他的总统竞选之路在竞争激烈的南卡洛莱那州走到了尽头。
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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.
现在国家刚刚开始落实各项机制，将那些制造“杀人场“的人绳之以法。
That looks suspiciously convenient for Cambodia’s current rulers and their cronies, anxious to avoid close scrutiny of their parts in the killing fields.
这似乎有为柬埔寨当前统治者和他们的挚友行方便之嫌，因为这些人都想避免由于自身在杀戮事件中的角色而接受严格调查。

The rivalry for control of the illegal drug industry turned New Orleans's housing projects into killing fields.
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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.