[N-COUNT 可数名词]屠夫;屠户;肉贩子 A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]肉铺;肉店 A butcher or a butcher's is a shop where meat is sold.
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[VERB 动词]屠宰 To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat.
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Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling.
杀了猪,猪腿挂在天花板上风干。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]刽子手;杀人狂 You can refer to someone as a butcher when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
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Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon.
在法国,克劳斯·巴比是臭名昭著的“里昂屠夫”。
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[VERB 动词]屠戮;残杀 You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
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Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners...
卫兵们杀掉了1,350名囚犯。
Our people are being butchered in their homes.
我们的人民在自己家里遭到了屠杀。
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butcher/ˈbʊtʃə(r); NAmEˈbʊtʃər/
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butcherbutchersbutcheredbutcheringnoun1a person whose job is cutting up and selling meat in a shop/store or killing animals for this purpose 屠夫;肉贩2butcher's(pluralbutchers)a shop/store that sells meat 肉店;肉铺◆He owns the butcher's in the main street.他在大街上开了一家肉铺。3a person who kills people in a cruel and violent way 刽子手IDIOMhave/take a ˈbutcher's( BrE) ( slang) to have a look at sth 观看ORIGINFrom rhyming slang, in which butcher's hookstands for ‘look’. 源自同韵俚语,其中的 butcher's hook 代表 look。verb1butchersb to kill people in a very cruel and violent way 屠杀;杀戮2butchersth to kill animals and cut them up for use as meat 屠宰;宰杀3butchersth ( especially NAmE) to spoil sth by doing it very badly 弄砸;糟蹋◆The script was good, but those guys butchered it.剧本很好,但让那帮家伙给演砸了。butcher/ˈbʊtʃə(r); NAmEˈbʊtʃər/
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butcher1 noun
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butcherbutch‧er1 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/ ●●○S3 noun
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1butcher (1)[countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat2the butcher’s a shop where you can buy meat3[countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people4have/take a butcher’s British English spoken informal to have a look at something
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butcher2 verb
butcherbutcher2 verb [transitive]
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1to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat2to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people3informal to spoil something by working carelessly: That hairdresser really butchered my hair!
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