CCTV9英语新闻12月：南京大屠杀纪念馆举办祈祷和平会

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre¹. A prayer assembly for peace is set to be held in a square outside the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Now let’s go live to the peace rally.

This year’s event has gathered more than 5,000 people, including residents, students, family of victims, survivors² of the massacre, as well as representatives from International Institute of Peace. Other memorial activities are being held in Nanjing, including press conferences and seminars. As part of this year’s event, a report on preserving of survivors’ oral histories of the atrocity³ will be presented and a Sino-US collaborative project on oral history studies will be announced.

On December 13th, 1937, Japanese troops killed about 300-thousand Chinese civilians⁴ and unarmed soldiers, after they captured the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing during the Second World War.

1 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 atrocity   

n.残暴，暴行

参考例句：

• These people are guilty of acts of great atrocity.这些人犯有令人发指的暴行。
• I am shocked by the atrocity of this man's crimes.这个人行凶手段残忍狠毒使我震惊。

4 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。