butchery的意思|butchery的解释-里氏词典

butchery ['butʃəri]

n. 屠宰场, 肉店, 屠杀, 残杀, 一团糟

[法] 残杀, 屠杀, 惨杀

It became clear to us that we were witnessing the aftermath of a massacre， the cold-blooded butchery of helpless and defenceless civilians.
这向我们清楚表明，我们在目击一场大屠杀后的残余，一场对无助无武装平民的冷血屠杀。

butchery

[ noun ]

a building where animals are butchered

<noun.artifact>

the business of a butcher

<noun.act>

the savage and excessive killing of many people

<noun.act>

Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F.
boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]

2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.

The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott.

3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
shed. [Obs.]

Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.

Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.

In court, there have been allegations of satanic rituals, animal butchery, perjury, suppression of evidence and coaching of witnesses.
At Knossos in Crete childrens' bones were found a few years ago with butchery cuts as on animal bones.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat urged Arab countries on Wednesday to "make a common front against the butchery against Palestinians by the forces of Zionist occupation," referring to Israel.
But the real victims of Beeching's butchery were not the little Welsh stationmasters who had the lobelias swept from their waiting-room windowboxes, nor the pipe-chewing peasants who boarded at Piddle Magna.
Moreover, the Labor Department recently singled out IBP for failing to pay overtime to workers for the time it took them to outfit themselves with safety equipment and sharpen their butchery knives.

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