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

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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

• 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。
• These two icy butchers thoroughly understood each other.
  这两个心肠冷酷的屠夫彼此十分了解。
• So some Chinese butchers specialize in slaughtering dogs.
  中国的一些屠夫就是专门杀狗的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Have you ever seen the horrible scene that butchers had butchered pigs in the abattoir?
  你在屠宰场看过那些屠夫们屠杀猪儿们的恐怖场面吗？
• 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。
• The other thing that veggies and artisan butchers have in common is their rarity.
  素食主义者和技术屠夫的另一个共同点便是他们都数量稀少。
• 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。