Chinese president sends condolences to Obama over school shooting

 BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday sent a message of condolences to U.S. President Barak Obama following the shooting incident at an elementary school in Newtown in the U.S. state of Connecticut on Friday.

Hu expressed profound sympathy with and faithful solicitude¹ to the U.S. government and its people over the school shooting tragedy, and offered condolences to the victims.

On the same day, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also offered condolences to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the shooting.

A gunman slaughtered² 28 people, including 20 children, at an elementary school in Newtown. The shooting is the second most deadly in the U.S. history, only after the Virginia Tech Massacre³ in April 2007, which claimed 33 lives.

1 solicitude   

n.焦虑

参考例句：

• Your solicitude was a great consolation to me.你对我的关怀给了我莫大的安慰。
• He is full of tender solicitude towards my sister.他对我妹妹满心牵挂。

2 slaughtered   

v.屠杀，杀戮，屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 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！