butchery

英 [ˈbʊtʃəri]

美 [ˈbʊtʃəri]

n.  残杀; 杀戮; 屠宰工作

复数：butcheries　

法律

BNC.32928 / COCA.29042

牛津词典

noun

• 残杀；杀戮
  cruel, violent and unnecessary killing
• 屠宰工作
  the work of preparing meat to be sold

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 大屠杀；残杀
  You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people asbutcherywhen you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
  1. In her view, war is simply a legalised form of butchery.
     在她看来，战争只不过是一种合法化的屠杀。
• N-UNCOUNT 屠宰工作
  Butcheryis the work of cutting up meat and preparing it for sale.
  1. ...a carcass hung up for butchery.
     悬挂起来待宰的畜体

英英释义

noun

• the savage and excessive killing of many people
  Synonym:slaughtermassacremass murdercarnage
• the business of a butcher
  Synonym:butchering
• a building where animals are butchered
  Synonym:abattoirshamblesslaughterhouse

双语例句

• Those who provide terrorists and extremists with money, arms and strategic guidance are equally responsible for the continued killing and brutal butchery of innocent civilians in Afghanistan.
  为恐怖分子和极端分子提供资金，武器和战略指导的人也应该为阿富汗无辜的平民遭遇的残暴的屠杀负责。
• This is corporate entertainment in the post-banking crisis era and they are learning the art of butchery at an evening class in central London.
  这是后银行业危机时代的公司娱乐活动。这群人正在位于伦敦市中心的一堂夜校课程中学习屠宰技术。
• The museum shop includes a grocery section, where customers can purchase goods from a genuine butchery and bakery.
  博物馆的商店内含日常采买区，客人们可以那儿向真正的肉贩和烘焙坊购买东西。
• Pore over the policy papers and you find that the butchery tax has been abolished ( to relieve the burden on farmers) and that most wet-processing kilns for cement have been closed ( to cut pollution).
  翻阅一下政府工作报告便会发现，屠宰税已被废除（以减轻农民负担），多数生产水泥的窑炉已被关闭（以减少污染）。
• The levels of N and P elements in the butchery waste-water were reduced obviously by Eichhornia crassipes Solms.
  在含Ag~+浓度为0.1～2.0ppm的屠宰废水中，凤眼莲降低N、P元素的效率，随浓度增加而降低；
• After completing a three-year degree in butchery in Ljubljana, Borut came to London to follow the profession that has been in his family for generations.
  在卢布尔雅那读完三年期的屠宰学位后，博鲁特来到了伦敦，从事起这项其家族世代从事的职业。
• The deployment of a high-sounding, honeyed, provocative methods to destroy humans'multifaceted nature involves contemporary culture's butchery.
  借以“创造生活”这个冠冕堂皇、美丽的动听、具有极其扇动方式来毁灭人性多重性，这就是当下文化的的屠杀。
• His father taught him all about butchery.
  他的父亲传授他关于屠宰业的一切。
• Most are mailed from Sioux Falls, a city with a street of spiffy restaurants, a fragrant hog butchery and lots of banks& here by the grace of South Dakota's bank-friendly usury laws.
  大多数信件从苏福尔斯（SiouxFalls）寄出，这座城市有一条时髦的餐饮街，一家香气扑鼻的肉铺和许多家银行&这要得益于南达科他州有益于银行业发展的高利贷法。
• In her view, war is simply a legalised form of butchery.
  在她看来，战争只不过是一种合法化的屠杀。