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 recommend cooking meat with the fat and trimming it away later.
  肉贩建议先把肉整个儿煮熟，然后再将肥肉切去。
• The reason is that, before refrigeration, butchers would want to preserve meat during transit.
  原因就是在冷藏之前，屠夫想要在运输途中保存肉类。
• The butchers will raise the price of meat in a few weeks.
  肉商几个星期内将提高肉价。
• 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。
• So some Chinese butchers specialize in slaughtering dogs.
  中国的一些屠夫就是专门杀狗的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Several training courses were conducted by centre staff for meat dealers and butchers on improved halal slaughter methods and meat cutting techniques.
  中心职员在改进的清真屠宰方法和肉的切割技术方面为肉品经营者和屠宰者开展了一些培训课程。
• 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。
• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
  政府既需要牧羊人也需要屠夫。