| 单词 | slaughter |
| 释义 | slaugh·ter I. 1. a. < the slaughter of a hundred lions afforded him no recreation — Agnes Repplier > especially b. < was marked for slaughter but escaped death and became the leader of the minority — E.E.Dale > 2. a. < hoped that after the slaughter it would be possible really to create … one world in peace — Alva Myrdal > b. < notwithstanding this wholesale slaughter, bird life is still plentiful — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < half a century of … insensate slaughter sufficed to destroy the magnificent forest — M.M.Quaife > c. obsolete < besmeared and overstained with slaughter's pencil — Shakespeare > 3. < it was no longer a battle but a slaughter — Robert Graves > < ended the slaughter with a par 4 on the tenth hole to win by the awful margin of 9 and 8 — New Yorker > II. 1. 2. a. < five men in a stolen car slaughtered a paymaster and a factory guard — Phil Stong > < the number of people slaughtered annually by cars — F.L.Allen > b. < tears through our literature slaughtering Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Hawthorne — S.E.Hyman > < his team was … slaughtered by Oklahoma — Eddie Beachler > c. slang < slaughtering them at the box office — Metronome > 3. a. < overwhelming automatic firepower … proved too much for them, and 700 were slaughtered in one day — Barrett McGurn > b. < slaughtered fish in astronomical numbers — Henry LaCossitt > < timber was slaughtered — Russell Lord > 4. |
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