Slaughter
['slɔːtə] or ['slɔtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the killing of animals (as for food).
(noun.) the savage and excessive killing of many people.
克劳斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) The act of killing.
(v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
(v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
(v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
(v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
編輯:谢恩
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Massacre, MURDER, carnage, bloodshed, butchery, ASSASSINATION, MANSLAUGHTER.
v. a. Massacre, slay, kill, butcher, despatch, MURDER.
錄入:丽莎
解釋/意思:
n. a killing: a great destruction of life: carnage: butchery.—ns. Slaugh′terer; Slaugh′terhouse a place where beasts are killed for the market; Slaugh′terman a man employed in killing or butchering animals.—adj. Slaugh′terous given to slaughter: destructive: murderous.—adv. Slaugh′terously.
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例句/造句/用法:
- My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughter of our men that even success would not justify. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The living spirit of the republic, it seemed, had sprung from a slaughter of royalists and the execution of the king. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Fall back; these misguided men shall not be slaughtered, while I am your general. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The slaughtered bull is dragged away, and another is let out from the stall. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- An animal thus characterized has been slaughtered, but the breeder has gone with confidence to the same stock and has succeeded. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The process of slaughtering and dressing pork, as practiced to-day, is a continuous one, and is well illustrated in Fig. 170, in 13 operations. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Revolutionary Tribunal went to work, and a steady slaughtering began. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He could see them as he walked from home that night (to the Old Slaughters', where he put up when in town) shining white in the moon. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Some one inquired at the Slaughters' regarding him, where it was said that he and his friend Captain Dobbin had left town. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I've done it, said George, coming into the Slaughters' an hour afterwards, looking very pale. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When he got back to the Slaughters', the roast fowl was of course cold, in which condition he ate it for supper. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He grudged the time lost between Piccadilly and his old haunt at the Slaughters', whither he drove faithfully. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He was very melancholy that night in the coffee-room at the Slaughters'; and drank a good deal, as his comrades remarked there. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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