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slaughter

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Related topics: Agriculture, Sport
slaugh·ter1 /ˈslɔːtə $ ˈslɒːtər/ ●○○ verb [transitiveT]  
1. TAto kill an animal, especially for its meat 屠宰〔动物〕
2  KILLto kill a lot of people in a cruel or violent way 屠杀，杀戮，残杀〔人〕 SYN butcher
 Hundreds of innocent civilians had been slaughtered by government troops.
数百名无辜平民遭政府军屠杀。
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3  informalDSBEAT/DEFEAT to defeat an opponent in a sport or game by a large number of points 〔在体育比赛中〕使惨败 SYN hammer
 We got slaughtered, 110–54.
我们以54比 110惨败。
Examples from the Corpus
slaughter• More than 3,190,600 animals have been slaughtered.• Arledge said she is not against sending horses to slaughter.• The only way to stop the virus spreading is by slaughtering all infected animals.• As part of the ceremony a cow was slaughtered and placed on the stone altar.• Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape.• Hundreds of civilians had been slaughtered by government troops.• Many of them had been ruthlessly slaughtered by the ancestors of our Secretary of the Interior.• From then on, the story turns into little more than an account of men slaughtering each other.• Men, women and children were slaughtered in groups by their captors.• Too many Trojans had been slaughtered in the first surprise.• The Knicks got slaughtered in the semifinal.• His great dragon Nightfang went berserk and slaughtered many Dark Elves and their slave troops.• Men ran through the village burning houses and slaughtering the inhabitants.• Estimates of the number slaughtered vary from 30,000 to 70,000.
slaughter2 ●○○ noun [uncountableU]  
1  TABwhen people kill animals, especially for their meat 〔对动物的〕屠宰，宰杀
 the export of live animals for slaughter
屠宰用活畜的出口
2  KILLwhen large numbers of people are killed in a cruel or violent way 〔对人的〕屠杀，杀戮，残杀
 the slaughter of defenceless women and children
对毫无自卫能力的妇孺的杀戮
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slaughter• The men were knocked away from them with great rapidity and slaughter by the terrible fire of the enemy.• Technology had advanced since the appalling slaughter of the Great War.• De Klerk warned Parliament on April 29 that the continuing slaughter could lead to civil war.• His war crimes included the deliberate slaughter of 250,000 individuals.• Most of the cattle will be sent for slaughter.• Many are determined to avenge the slaughter in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.• And why not give the slaughter of this young magnificent creature a sacred meaning equal to the experience of giving it death?• On the contrary, they had refrained from acting earlier even though they knew of the slaughter.• Now aged 99, he still has vivid memories of the slaughter.• They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house.• The slaughter was terrible - the whole field was covered with bodies.
Origin slaughter2
(1200-1300) Old Norse slatr “meat, killing animals for meat”
slaugh·ter1 verbslaughter2 noun
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IELTS BNC: 8774 COCA: 8340
slaughter

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + SLAUGHTER | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤indiscriminate, mass, wholesale濫殺；大屠殺◇the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians濫殺平民➤brutal, senseless, terrible殘酷的／無端的／駭人的屠殺▸➤ritual祭祀屠宰➤animal動物屠宰◇humane forms of animal slaughter對動物進行的人道屠宰➤halal, kosher合乎伊斯蘭教教規的／合乎猶太教教規的屠宰◇She supports a ban on kosher and halal slaughter, believing that such methods are cruel.她支持取締猶太教和伊斯蘭教屠宰方式，認為那些方法太殘忍。VERB + SLAUGHTER➤end, prevent, stop結束屠殺；阻止殺戮◇We were helpless to stop the slaughter.我們無力阻止那場大屠殺。➤ban禁止宰殺◇federal legislation to ban horse slaughter禁止宰殺馬匹的聯邦法律➤order下令屠宰◇Officials ordered the slaughter of hundreds of animals.官員們下令宰殺數百隻動物。PREPOSITION➤for slaughter供宰殺◇the transporting of live horses for slaughter運送供屠宰的活馬PHRASES➤the slaughter of innocents對無辜者的屠殺◇the horrors of civil war and the slaughter of innocents內戰的駭人聽聞及對無辜者的慘殺
slaughter

verb¹

 1kill an animal殺死動物ADVERB | PREPOSITION ADVERB➤humanely人道毀滅◇The animals are all humanely slaughtered.這些動物都是人道屠宰的。➤ritually祭祀屠宰▸➤illegally非法屠宰◇elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers被偷獵者非法屠殺的大象PREPOSITION➤for為得到⋯而屠殺◇Thousands of birds were slaughtered for their feathers.人們為得到羽毛捕殺了數以千計的鳥。
slaughter

verb²

 2kill a large number of people殺死大批人ADVERB➤brutally, cruelly野蠻地／殘酷地殺戮◇Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.數百名無辜平民遭殘殺。➤indiscriminately恣意殺戮➤systematically有計劃地屠殺◇Thousands of people were systematically slaughtered by their oppressors.數千人遭到壓迫者的蓄意殺戮。
IELTS BNC: 8774 COCA: 8340
slaughter noun
⇨ massacre
IELTS BNC: 8774 COCA: 8340
slaughter
The crime of killing and ways of killing: assassination, butchery, constructive manslaughter...
To kill animals: bag, butcher, cull...
To kill a person or animal: kill, murder, strangle...
To defeat someone in a game, competition or argument: defeat, win, beat...
To criticize strongly: attack, damn, savage...

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