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slaughter

/slaw-ter/US // ˈslɔ tər //UK // (ˈslɔːtə) //

宰杀,屠宰,残杀,屠杀

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
    • : the brutal or violent killing of a person.
    • : the killing of great numbers of people or animals indiscriminately; carnage: the slaughter of war.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to kill or butcher, especially for food.
    • : to kill in a brutal or violent manner.
    • : to slay in great numbers; massacre.
    • : Informal. to defeat thoroughly; trounce: They slaughtered our team.

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Examples

  • Today, our response to the temporary closing of slaughter plants can be a permanent opening of our dietary habits to actual plants.

  • Enraged, the meat lobby retaliated by having producers again cease sending animals to slaughter.

  • After all, Faith says, massive herbivores like these rhinos were slow to breed and it wouldn’t take a “catastrophic slaughter” for humans to make a dent in the population.

  • If the outcome in certain cases is less reprehensible than outright slaughter, it is only because natural selection only sometimes works to reduce the denominator of the “fitness ratio.”

  • Plant outbreaks gummed up the meat supply chain, creating a backlog of animals awaiting slaughter.

  • To most of the world, Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator, responsible for the slaughter of 100,000 or more.

  • Getting people to pay attention to a possible new round of slaughter in the region proved difficult.

  • Reform first came in 1935 when Lenora Slaughter was hired to re-invent the pageant as its new director.

  • In her white prom dress, Carrie is like a lamb to the slaughter, the blood besmirching her innocence.

  • When Dan Honig was getting ready to slaughter a steer for the first time, he expected to feel devastated.

  • Its record is largely that of battles and sieges, of the brave adventure of discovery and the vexed slaughter of the nations.

  • The city hell hounds sprang to meet them and the slaughter of inoffensive Europeans began in Darya Gunj.

  • The farewell and the mourning are finished by the slaughter of dogs, that the dying man may have forerunners in the other world.

  • This slaughter is accompanied by the tabagie and what follows it—namely, the singing and dancing.

  • It went hard with him to slaughter the faithful creature, who knew him, and came towards him at the first sound of his voice.