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- butcher ['bυtʃə]
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1.
n
a retailer of meat
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2.
n
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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3.
n
an indiscriminate or brutal murderer
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4.
n
a person who destroys, ruins, or bungles something
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5.
vt.
[tr]
to slaughter or dress (animals) for meat
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6.
vt.
to kill indiscriminately or brutally
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7.
vt.
to make a mess of; botch; ruin
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8.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French bouchier, from bouc he-goat, probably of Celtic origin; see
buck 1; compare Welsh bwch he-goat
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1.
n
a retailer of meat
Examples
- Next time, ask the butcher to bone the meat.
- 下次让卖肉的把肉里的骨头剔出来。 → bone
- My neighborhood butcher has the best prices and selections of meat that I've seen in this city.
- 我们小区那家卖的肉堪称全市最物美价廉的了。 → butcher
- Going to the butcher and seeing all that raw meat makes me lose my appetite.
- 在屠宰店看到的那些生肉使我毫无胃口。 → butcher
- He's going to trade school to become a butcher.
- 他要去中专学习，将来要去卖肉。
- How can a farmer butcher an animal that he himself raised for years?
- 一个农夫怎么能忍心杀掉饲养多年的动物？ → butcher
- our local butcher delivers → deliver
- a halal butcher → halal
- 屠宰牲畜
- slaughter animals; butcher fat stock → 屠宰
- 屠杀
- massacre; butcher; slaughter → 屠
- 佛家讲“放下屠刀, 立地成佛”是让人向善。
- The Buddhist saying "put away the knife, and the butcher becomes a Buddha immediately" is meant to instruct people to behave in a good way.
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