a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop
肉商,肉贩。
a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food
屠夫
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[with modifier]
a pork butcher 杀猪屠夫。
a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally
刽子手
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the Nazi death camp butcher .纳粹集中营的刽子手。
〈北 美,非正式〉 (火车上或剧院中兜售点心、饮料、报刊等的)小贩。
slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food
屠宰。
kill (someone) brutally
屠杀
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they rounded up and butchered 250 people .他们围捕并屠杀了250个人。
〈喻〉 故意破坏;(因无能)搞砸
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the film was butchered by the studio that released it .发行该影片的制片厂把它搞砸了。
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have (或take )a butcher's .Brit. informal have a look 〈英,非正式〉 看一眼let's take a butcher's at those bugs . 让我们看看那些甲虫吧 -
[ORIGIN
butcher's frombutcher's hook , rhyming slang for a ‘look’.]
"Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French