Butcher
['bʊtʃə] or ['bʊtʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.
(noun.) a brutal indiscriminate murderer.
(noun.) a retailer of meat.
(verb.) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; 'They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter'.
埃米莉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
(n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
(v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
(v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
阿奇校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Slayer, killer, murderer, slaughterer, assassin, cut-throat.
v. a. Kill, MURDER, slay, slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death.
阿加莎手打
解釋/意思:
n. one whose business is to slaughter animals for food: one who delights in bloody deeds.—v.t. to slaughter animals for food: to put to a bloody death to kill cruelly: (fig.) to spoil anything as a bad actor or the like.—ns. Butch′er-bird a shrike; Butch′ering Butch′ing the act of killing for food or cruelly.—adv. Butch′erly butcher-like cruel murderous.—ns. Butch′er-meat Butch′er's-meat the flesh of animals slaughtered by butchers as distinguished from fish fowls and game; Butch′er's-broom a genus of plants of the lily order the common one being an evergreen shrub a bunch of which is used by butchers for sweeping their blocks; Butch′ery great or cruel slaughter: a slaughter-house or shambles.
校對:维多利亚
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents.
德威特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The same quantity of butcher's meat would still come to market. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Not in a dishonourable way, Wegg, because you was singing to the butcher; and you wouldn't sing secrets to a butcher in the street, you know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To which, the butcher's boy: who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition: replied, that he thought not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Then it rolled among the women and stopped beside the half-butchered thing they were preparing to feast upon. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I say come, Amelia, the civilian went on; never mind what she says; why are we to stop here and be butchered by the Frenchmen? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Butchered to make a Roman holyday has grown monotonous to me. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Beef cattle were driven with the trains, and butchered as wanted. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We have been talking with unseemly zeal about bloody battles and butchering generals; we arrive now at a triumph in your line. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- How came those stinking butchers' candles in your room? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In all towns-corporate, all persons are free to sell butchers' meat upon any lawful day of the week. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The prices of bread and butchers' meat are generally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united kingdom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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