Picture the person behind the counter of a meat shop: whole animals come in, and the job is to cut them down into pieces people can buy and cook. Knife, block, cutting apart — that is the starting picture, and two things grow out of it: the trade of handling meat, and the plain act of cutting an animal up.
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原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Butchername
- 1
A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.
butchernoun詞源 1/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
- 1
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- 2
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- Butcher of an innocent child.
- 3
slangA look.
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obsoleteinformalA person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- 5
archaiccard-gamesgamesA king playing card.
butcherverb詞源 1/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
- 1
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- 2
To work as a butcher.
- He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
- 3
To kill brutally.
- 4
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
- 5
To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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