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

• The butchers will raise the price of meat in a few weeks.
  肉商几个星期内将提高肉价。
• So some Chinese butchers specialize in slaughtering dogs.
  中国的一些屠夫就是专门杀狗的。
• 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。
• These two icy butchers thoroughly understood each other.
  这两个心肠冷酷的屠夫彼此十分了解。
• 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。
• Industrial butchers slaughter livestock using stunning devices and knives;
  需要使用极好的设备和刀；
• 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。
• Butchers have complained that they must pay a fee of up to 100 euros per month to use knives they need to cut meat.
  屠夫们抱怨说，他们每个月必须要为切肉的刀支付高达100欧元的使用费。
• 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。
• But on a dark windy night, their master decides to sell thefatterone to the butchers house.
  可是，风高的夜晚，主人残忍地决定过两个月后把胖的那只送到屠宰场。