abattoir [
'æbәtwɑ:]
- All that talk about abattoirs turned me right off!
关於屠宰场的那些话让我十分恶心! - A Judas goat led sheep into the abattoir.
一只带路的山羊把绵羊引到屠宰场去了。 - The lambs are taken to the local abattoir to be slaughtered.
这些羔羊被送到当地屠宰场,将被屠宰。
abattoir[ noun ]
a building where animals are butchered
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Abattoir \A`bat`toir"\ ([.a]`b[.a]t`tw[aum]r"), n.; pl.
{Abattoirs} (-tw[aum]rz"). [F., fr. abattre to beat down. See
{Abate}.]
A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
- The fiasco that ultimately resulted from Israel's 1982 invasion and then withdrawal from Lebanon, leaving that country a permanent abattoir presided over by Syria, was a direct result of policy divisions in the U.S. and Israel.
- FMC, a subsidiary of Hillsdown Holdings, has sold its abattoir at Bromsgrove to management for Pounds 2.5m.
- All of which is bad news for the abattoir industry. In the short term, at least, it is also bad news for farmers like me.
- If the abattoir trade pushes it just a touch too far retailers will, without compunction, switch to New Zealand supplies.