butcher

1. N-COUNT A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies. 屠夫; 肉商

2. N-COUNT A butcher or a butcher's is a shop where meat is sold. 肉鋪[英國英語]

He worked in a butcher's. 他在肉鋪工作。

3. V-T To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat. 宰殺

Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling. 豬被宰殺了，火腿吊在屋頂下風(fēng)干。

4. V-T You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. 屠殺[表不滿]

...rebels who butchered eight tourists in Bwindi national park. …在布文迪國家公園屠殺了8名游客的叛亂分子。