butcher

butcher
noun

a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop
肉商，肉贩
■a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food
屠夫
■[with modifier]a pork butcher
猪肉贩
■a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally
（凶残的）刽子手
the Nazi death camp butcher.
纳粹集中营的刽子手。
(N. Amer. informal)a person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a theatre
(北美，非正式)（火车上或剧院中兜售点心、报刊等的）小贩

verb

[with obj.](常作 be butchered)slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food
屠宰
■kill (someone) brutally
屠杀
they rounded up and butchered 250 people.
他们围捕并屠杀了250个人。
■(figurative)ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence
(喻)故意破坏；（因无能）搞砸
the film was butchered by the studio that released it.
发行该影片的制片厂把它糟蹋掉了。

常用词组
have (或 take) a butcher's

(Brit. informal)have a look
(英，非正式)看一眼
let's take a butcher's at those bugs.
让我们看看那些甲虫吧。

语源

Middle English : from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc 'he-goat', probably of the same ultimate origin as buck

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