butchers

英 [ˈbʊtʃəz]

美 [ˈbʊtʃərz]

n.  屠夫; 肉贩; 肉店; 肉铺; 刽子手
v.  屠杀; 杀戮; 屠宰; 宰杀; 弄砸; 糟蹋
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柯林斯词典

• 屠夫；屠户；肉贩子
  Abutcheris a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• 肉铺；肉店
  Abutcheror abutcher'sis a shop where meat is sold.
• VERB 屠宰
  Tobutcheran animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat.
  1. Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling.
     杀了猪，猪腿挂在天花板上风干。
• N-COUNT 刽子手；杀人狂
  You can refer to someone as abutcherwhen they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
  1. 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”。
• VERB 屠戮；残杀
  You can say that someonehas butcheredpeople when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
  1. Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners...
     卫兵们杀掉了1,350名囚犯。
  2. Our people are being butchered in their homes.
     我们的人民在自己家里遭到了屠杀。

双语例句

• The reason is that, before refrigeration, butchers would want to preserve meat during transit.
  原因就是在冷藏之前，屠夫想要在运输途中保存肉类。
• Butchers are doing a roaring trade in spiced sausages these days.
  最近肉商们的辣味香肠生意很兴隆。
• So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.
  同样地，屠夫们在草地上到处耙野牛舌草，不顾那被撕伤了和枯萎了的植物。
• Industrial butchers slaughter livestock using stunning devices and knives;
  需要使用极好的设备和刀；
• In some large cities you can find actual halal butchers, particularly in California.
  在一些大城市，你可以找到真正的合法屠夫，特别是加利福尼亚。
• Only heros are to be honored and recalled, butchers are not included.
  只有英雄才值得尊敬和缅怀，屠夫不在此列。
• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
  政府既需要牧羊人也需要屠夫。
• Diplomats and generals tell their own kinds of lies on occasion, as do used car salesmen, butchers and builders.
  有时候，外交官或普通民众也会讲各式的谎言，就象汽车销售员，屠夫和建筑工人。
• The Triads are chopping up people, just like butchers killing animals, he told reporters last year.
  去年他曾向记者表示：黑恶势力拿刀砍人，就像屠户用刀砍杀牲畜。
• The other butchers in the area realized that what happened to the Zhaos could easily happen to them, too, so they closed up their butcher shops and went into other lines of business.
  这个地区其他的屠夫想，发生在赵家的事情，也很可能会发生在他们身上，所以他们都关了自己的肉店，改做其他生意了。