body count

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially fatalities, or victims.
    — Senator BYRD of West Virginia. Why do we minimize our losses as apparently we do? I find it extremely difficult to believe that there have been 6,200 VC and NVA killed by body count, whereas we have only lost 193 Americans and 335 ARVN troops.
  2. The number of people who have been killed by a given individual.
  3. The total number of sexual partners of a given individual. slang
    — The numbers don’t matter. It’s not a body count, a scratch-pad list or a boast. Statistics obscure intent and meaning. My toll is therefore ambiguous. Girlfriends, wives, one-night stands, paid companions. Chaste early figures. A high-stat blitz later on. Quantity means shit in my case.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see body, count.
    — ...based upon a February visit of GAO to Houston where they were not keeping statistics, the figure from GAO, as I was told yesterday, is that Houston has only 11 jobs for Vietnam veterans. No, they haven't kept a body count, but our estimate is far higher.

词形变化

body counts plural bodycount alternative

词源

Coined by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War in the sense "number of killed enemy combatants", in 1962 according to Merriam-Webster.
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