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abattoir

/ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr/US // ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr //UK // (ˈæbəˌtwɑː) //

屠宰场,屠场,屠宰厂,屠房

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a slaughterhouse.

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Examples

  • Germany’s largest pork plant was shuttered for a month this summer after more than 1,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, and additional abattoirs also faced temporary closures from outbreaks.

  • Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.

  • A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle.

  • The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.

  • A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.

  • And there is the master of our largest and goriest abattoir.

  • It was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!

  • Have you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?

  • Ay—and the abattoir is far, though its perfume is nigh; it is thrice a hundred yards from hence.

  • Probably it would be hung up in some abattoir, where oxen are driven in at one end, and tinned meat taken out at the other.