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- a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop肉商, 肉贩。
1.1
- a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food屠夫：
with modifier a pork butcher杀猪屠夫。
1.2
- a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally刽子手：
the Nazi death camp butcher.
纳粹集中营的刽子手。
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- N. Amer. informal a person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a theatre〈北美, 非正式〉（火车上或剧院中兜售点心、饮料、报刊等的）小贩。
with obj.(常作be butchered)
1- slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food屠宰。
1.1
- kill (someone) brutally屠杀：
they rounded up and butchered 250 people.
他们围捕并屠杀了250个人。
1.2
- figurative ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence〈喻〉故意破坏; （因无能）搞砸：
the film was butchered by the studio that released it.
发行该影片的制片厂把它搞砸了。
短语
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 from butcher's hook, rhyming slang for a 'look'.
词源
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc 'he-goat'， probably of the same ultimate origin as BUCK1.