基本释义
An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
n. 暗杀者，刺客
He had been picked for the pro leagues straight from his suburban high school and had lived as a boy in Italy, two things that made him odd. But he came in burning with self-belief. No babying for him; he was hard, focused, a lone artist, and much of that stayed. He called himself the Black Mamba later, an assassin-snake, ruthless in the strike. Unjust foul calls and lost play-off games—especially the finals against the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics—threw him into misery and vows of revenge.
（科比）从郊区高中直接入选职业联赛，而童年还在意大利度过，这两件事让他显得格格不入。但他加入NBA时仍信心满怀。他不需要被照顾；他坚毅、专注，像一位孤独的艺术家，并且一直如此。后来，他自称“黑曼巴”（专取人性命的眼镜蛇），在攻击中毫不留情。但是不公正的判罚、失利的季后赛，尤其是在对阵底特律活塞队和波士顿凯尔特人队的决赛中失利让他深陷痛苦自责之中，发誓要复仇。
《经济学人》
单词assassin起源于阿拉伯语的Hashshashin，指“阿萨辛”，这是中世纪时期，在阿富汗至叙利亚山区，活跃着的一个穆斯林异端教派。
阿萨辛派的创始人名叫哈桑·本·萨巴赫（Hasan·bn·Sabbah），他凭借学识和口才，笼络了一大批追随者。这里培训的学员专搞伏击和暗杀，使远征而来的欧洲十字军人人自危。在欧洲人心中，“阿萨辛”也渐渐和“刺客”划上了等号。
单词assassin的动词和名词形式也比较常用：
来看两个例句：
日本前领导人在演讲时遇刺身亡。
Sometimes the assassination of a leader is so shocking that it triggers what psychologists call flashbulb memory in a country’s citizens.
在美剧《摩登家庭》S5E12中，Cameron描述躲避球比赛的场景时，就用到了今天的单词：
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