slaughter

• vt. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；使惨败
• n. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；消灭
• n. (Slaughter)人名；(英)斯劳特

来自 slay,屠宰，宰杀，-ghter,名词后缀，比较 laughter.引申比喻义屠杀。

1. the killing of animals (as for food)

2. a sound defeat

3. the savage and excessive killing of many people

slaughter

slaughter: [13] Slaughter was borrowed from Old Norse *slahtr, which went back to the same prehistoric Germanic base (*slakh- ‘strike’) that produced English slay. Old English appears to have had its own version of the word, *slæht, which survived into the 17th century as slaught. This forms the second syllable of onslaught [17], where it replaced the -slag in the borrowing from Middle Dutch aenslag (literally ‘onstriking’).
=> onslaught, slay

slaughter (n.)

c. 1300, "killing of a cattle or sheep for food, killing of a person," from a Scandinavian *slahtr, akin to Old Norse slatr "a butchering, butcher meat," slatra "to slaughter," slattr "a mowing" from Proto-Germanic *slukhtis, related to Old Norse sla "to strike" (see slay (v.)) + formative suffix (as in laugh/laughter). Meaning "killing of a large number of persons in battle" is attested from mid-14c. Old English had slieht "stroke, slaughter, murder, death; animals for slaughter;" as in sliehtswyn "pig for killing."

slaughter (v.)

1530s, "butcher an animal for market," from slaughter (n.). Meaning "slay wantonly, ruthlessly, or in great numbers" is from 1580s. Related: Slaughtered; slaughtering.

kill, murder, slaughter, massacre, assassinate, execute

这些动词均有"杀，杀死"之意。

kill： 普通用词，含义广泛，泛指以任何方式使人、动物或植物死亡。

murder： 指谋杀或凶杀。

slaughter： 本义指大批宰杀动物，也指像屠宰牲畜一样一次杀死许多人。

massacre语气比slaughter强。指大屠杀，尤指屠杀失去了自卫能力的人。

assassinate： 通常指因政治原因用非法手段杀害政治领袖人物或短名人士。

execute： 指依法处死罪犯。

cows taken for slaughter

待宰奶牛

牛津词典

the wholesale slaughter of innocent people

对无辜民众的大规模杀戮

牛津词典

Men, women and children were slaughtered and villages destroyed.

村庄被毁，男人、女人和儿童惨遭杀戮。

牛津词典

We were slaughtered 10–1 by the home team.

我们以1:10惨败给主队。

牛津词典

Thirty four people were slaughtered while queuing up to cast their votes...

有 34 人在排队投票时遭到残杀。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Whales and dolphins are still being slaughtered for commercial gain.

仍然有人为了商业利益大肆捕杀鲸鱼和海豚。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock.

鸡饲料的缺乏意味着养鸡场将不得不杀掉饲养的鸡。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Given the rivals'history of war and slaughter, that is no trifle.

鉴于双方的往日的战争和屠杀, 这已经不算是个小的进步了.

期刊摘选

Bob went into the exam room like a lamb to the slaughter.

鲍勃就像刑场一样进了考场.

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Samuel chose to be solider, and soldiers die , sent to their slaughter by men in government.

塞缪尔选择当军人, 军人难免意思.政府的人让他们去送死. 你这样的寄生虫!

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The battle resulted in a frightful slaughter.

战斗以可怕的大屠杀告终.

《简明英汉词典》

They sickened at the sight of slaughter.

他们看到那么多人遭受屠杀而有欲呕之感.

期刊摘选

Capture strategic locations, rescue hostages and slaughter indiscriminately!

占领作战地点, 营救人质,毫不留情的进行厮杀!

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He had no strong feelings about human slaughter.

他对人类残杀没有强烈的感情.

辞典例句

I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.

我不忍看他们宰牛.

《简明英汉词典》

Others blamed the careful doe for leading him to the slaughter.

还有些树仙责怪那只母鹿害他惨遭屠杀.

期刊摘选

The antibodies attack and slaughter the invading microbea in the cut.

抗体能攻击和杀伤侵入伤口的微生物.

辞典例句

We're fattening the livestock up for slaughter.

我们正在催肥牲畜待宰杀.

《简明英汉词典》

Parliament has passed an act forbidding the slaughter of animals for pleasure.

议会通过了一项禁止杀生取乐的法令.

《简明英汉词典》

We raise cattle for slaughter.

我们养牛供屠宰.

辞典例句

Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.

大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行.

《简明英汉词典》

After the slaughter, the battlefield was a gruesome sight.

经过这场厮杀, 战场上一派触目惊心的惨状.

期刊摘选

That wasn't war , it was simply slaughter.

这哪是械斗, 简直是一场诛戮.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

It is made to flash like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.

这刀造得象闪15电, 磨得尖利,要行杀戮.

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I'm really terrified to witness the slaughter.

我亲眼目睹这场屠杀,真吓得毛发倒竖.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

cows taken for slaughter

待宰奶牛

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》