butcher
butcher 英 [ˈbʊtʃə(r)] 美 [ˈbʊtʃɚ]
vt. 屠杀 n. 屠夫，肉铺
进行时:butchering 过去式:butchered 过去分词:butchered 第三人称单数:butchers 名词复数:butchers
- The person whose job it is to cut up and sell meat is called a butcher. Your grandmother might go to the butcher once a week to buy pork chops.
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- vt. 屠杀
- n. 屠夫，肉铺
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1. A butcher needs sharp knives.
屠夫需利刃。
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2. He owns the butcher's in the main street.
他在大街上开了一家肉铺。
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3. The script was good, but those guys butchered it.
剧本很好，但让那帮家伙给演砸了。
- butcher (n.) c. 1300, "one who slaughters animals for market," from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frankish *bukk or some other Germanic source (see buck (n.1)) or Celtic *bukkos "he-goat." Figurative sense of "brutal murderer, one who kills indiscriminately or cruelly" is attested from 1520s. Related: Butcherly. Old English had flæscmangere "butcher" ('flesh-monger').
- butcher (v.) 1560s, "to kill or slaughter for food or market," from butcher (n.). Figuratively, "to bungle, botch, spoil by bad work," 1640s. Related: Butchered; butchering. Re-nouned 1640s as butcherer.
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