butcher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++butch·er1 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/ ●●○ S3 noun 1. 
BODF[countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat 肉铺老板；肉贩2. the butcher’s SHOP/STOREa shop where you can buy meat 肉店，肉铺3. KILL[countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people 刽子手4. have/take a butcher’s LOOK AT British English spoken informal to have a look at something 看一眼
BODF[countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat 肉铺老板；肉贩2. the butcher’s SHOP/STOREa shop where you can buy meat 肉店，肉铺3. KILL[countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people 刽子手4. have/take a butcher’s LOOK AT British English spoken informal to have a look at something 看一眼Examples from the Corpus
butcher• He had been hired by a butcher in the Shambles.• Also patron of artists, butchers, glassworkers, notaries, painters, and surgeons.• And in Butcher Row there were 29 butchers, including a Master Butcher who features in the books.• He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood.• Many small independent butchers are closing down.• Therefore, we recommend having the butcher debone them whenever possible.• The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker.butcher2 verb [transitive] 1. DFTAto kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat 屠宰〔牲口〕2. KILLto kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people 血腥屠杀3 informalSPOIL to spoil something by working carelessly 弄坏，搞糟 That hairdresser really butchered my hair! 那名理发师把我的头发弄得一塌糊涂！→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
butcher• Catholics, he preached, trained blind and furious zealots to butcher and scalp Protestants.• They decided Mr Newall was butchered downstairs and his wife in her bedroom.• The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.• Memories of the 1983 riots, when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo, are lively.• Loi butchered it eagerly, first cutting off inch-thick steaks which we fried in soy sauce and oil and were delicious.• Each of his predecessors has been assassinated / butchered / knifed by one or more among those gathered in front of him.• And who did butcher those women?Origin butcher1 (1200-1300) Old French bouchier, from bouc “male goat”butch·er1 nounbutcher2 verbChineseSyllable
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butcher
butch‧er1 S3 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/ 
noun
1. [countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat
2. the butcher’s a shop where you can buy meat
3. [countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people
4. have/take a butcher’s British English spoken informal to have a look at something
butcher2 verb [transitive]
1. to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat
2. to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people
3. informal to spoil something by working carelessly:
That hairdresser really butchered my hair!
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noun Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: bouchier, from bouc 'male goat'
Language: Old French
Origin: bouchier, from bouc 'male goat'
1. [countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat
2. the butcher’s a shop where you can buy meat
3. [countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people
4. have/take a butcher’s British English spoken informal to have a look at something
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verb [transitive]1. to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat
2. to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people
3. informal to spoil something by working carelessly:
Conceding a point and making a counter-argument 承认一个观点的正确性，并提出一个对立的观点
◆ While the film is undoubtedly too long, it isnevertheless an intriguing piece of cinema.虽然这部电影的确太长了，但它不失为一部有趣的影片。 ◆ It can be argued that the movie is too long. It isnonetheless an intriguing piece of cinema.可以认为这部电影太长了，但它不失为一部有趣的影片。 ◆ The film is undoubtedly too long. Still , it is an intriguing piece of cinema.这部电影的确太长了，但它仍不失为一部有趣的影片。 ◆ Of course , huge chunks of the book have been sacrificed in order to make a two-hour movie,but it isnevertheless a successful piece of storytelling.当然，为了制作一部两小时的电影，该书中的大部分内容都被舍弃了，不过它仍不失为一部成功的故事片。 ◆ Critics are wrong to argue that the film's plot is too complicated. Certainly there are a couple of major twists,but audiences will have no difficulty following them.批评家认为这部电影的情节过于复杂，这种观点是不恰当的。影片中确实有几次大的情节变化，但观众还是不难看懂的。 ◆ It is true that you cannot make a good movie without a good script,but it is equally true that a talented director can make a good script into an excellent film.的确，没有好的剧本不可能拍出好的电影，但有天赋的导演能将较好的剧本制作成非常好的电影，这一点也是没有疑问的。 ◆ It remains to be seen whether these two movies herald a new era of westerns,but there is no doubt that they represent welcome additions to the genre.这两部电影是否预示着西部片新时代的来临还有待观察。但是毫无疑问，它们作为这一电影类型的新作而受到欢迎。
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