slaughter

英 ['sl??t?] 美['sl?t?]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?slaughters;過去式:?slaughtered;過去分詞:?slaughtered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?slaughtering;

1. slay => slaught- => slaughter.
2. slaughter――?死+?狂笑+人.?想想日本鬼子邊殺人邊笑的感覺.在大屠殺?vt.&n.屠殺，??屠宰
3. 詞源：slay-屠殺，聯(lián)想：sl-死拉死拉地，整詞諧音“死老多”

slaughter 屠宰，宰殺，屠殺

來自 slay,屠宰，宰殺，-ghter,名詞后綴，比較 laughter.引申比喻義屠殺。

slaughter: slaughter: [13] Slaughter was borrowed from Old Norse *slahtr, which went back to the same prehistoric Germanic base (*slakh- ‘strike’) that produced English slay. Old English appears to have had its own version of the word, *sl?ht, which survived into the 17th century as slaught. This forms the second syllable of onslaught [17], where it replaced the -slag in the borrowing from Middle Dutch aenslag (literally ‘onstriking’).
=> onslaught, slay
slaughter (n.): c. 1300, "killing of a cattle or sheep for food, killing of a person," from a Scandinavian *slahtr, akin to Old Norse slatr "a butchering, butcher meat," slatra "to slaughter," slattr "a mowing" from Proto-Germanic *slukhtis, related to Old Norse sla "to strike" (see slay (v.)) + formative suffix (as in laugh/laughter). Meaning "killing of a large number of persons in battle" is attested from mid-14c. Old English had slieht "stroke, slaughter, murder, death; animals for slaughter;" as in sliehtswyn "pig for killing."
slaughter (v.): 1530s, "butcher an animal for market," from slaughter (n.). Meaning "slay wantonly, ruthlessly, or in great numbers" is from 1580s. Related: Slaughtered; slaughtering.

1. The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.: 在意大利，每年大量捕殺野生動(dòng)物的現(xiàn)象令人震驚。

2. The barbaric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.: 對(duì)鯨的野蠻屠殺既不必要也不人道。

3. We follow their every word like lambs to the slaughter.: 我們對(duì)他們完全言聽計(jì)從。