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
butcher的第三人称单数和复数

BNC.14250

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

• Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers have given way to baristas, waiters and floggers of tourist tat.
  屠夫、面包师和蜡烛工匠相继离去，咖啡吧台服务员、侍者和旅游针织品小贩比比皆是。
• A great and terrible hatred rose up in him for the butchers who had refused him credit.
  他恨透了不肯赊账给他的肉店老板。
• Two other looks were made not with scissors but with pliers, as butchers 'aprons of chain mail were transformed into bias-cut dresses.
  另外两套时装不是用剪刀，而是用钳子制作的，她把屠夫的锁子甲围裙改造成斜裁的裙装。
• Inside a warehouse, giant slabs of meat hang from the ceiling and butchers stand about, chopping beef.
  在一座仓库里，天花板下悬挂着一些大块的肉片，站着的屠夫们在忙着砍、切牛肉。
• 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。
• And in these years, I met all kinds people, like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical.
  这几年，我见过了各种人，比如说，农民和屠夫，这没什么奇怪的。
• 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。
• People seek trade because of self-interest-nothing more is needed, as Smith discussed in a statement that has been quoted again and again explaining why bakers, brewers, butchers and consumers seek trade.
  人们进行交易是出于私利仅此而已，正如斯密在一句名言中所论述的那样。人们反复引述的那句话解释了为什么屠夫、酿酒者、面包师和消费者要进行交易。
• A thousand martyrs fell and thousands more were injured, yet not one revolutionary raised a weapon in the face of the butchers.
  已有1000名烈士倒下了，还有数千人受伤，然而面对屠夫，我们在革命中还是没有拿起一件武器。
• So some Chinese butchers specialize in slaughtering dogs.
  中国的一些屠夫就是专门杀狗的。