| 单词 | butcher |
| 释义 | butcher (bʊtʃəʳ ) Word forms: butchers , butchering , butchered 1. countable noun B1 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. 2. countable noun B1 A butcher or a butcher's is a shop where meat is sold. 3. verb To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat. All his meat is butchered on site before being sold in the farm shop. [be VERB-ed] 4. countable noun 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. [disapproval] ...the Duke of Cumberland, infamous still as the butcher of Culloden. [+ of] 5. verb 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. [disapproval] Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners. [VERB noun] Our people are being butchered in their homes. Synonyms: kill, slaughter, massacre, destroy Collocations: local butcher After all, their contracts were worth more than the local butcher earned in a year. Times, Sunday Times Get to know your local butcher to buy forequarter cuts, good for braising, at about 8.50 a kg. Times, Sunday Times As for lunch, it's a simple choice of artisan pies from the local butcher. Times, Sunday Times Which, in the case of a blockbuster, can include everyone in the world up to and including your local butcher. Times, Sunday Times Yet this was not the local butcher, baker and website-maker involved. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 屠夫, 肉店, 宰杀 Japanese: 肉屋, 肉屋, 食肉処理をする |
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