butcher

• vt. 屠杀
• n. 屠夫
• n. (Butcher)人名；(英)布彻

来自buck, 雄鹿, 公羊。插入字母t. 卖羊肉的人。

butcher

butcher: [13] Butcher comes via Anglo-Norman boucher from Old French bouchier, a derivative of boc ‘male goat’ (this was probably borrowed from a Celtic word which came ultimately from the same Indo-European base as produced English buck). The original sense of the word was thus ‘dealer in goat’s flesh’.
=> buck

butcher (v.)

1560s, from butcher (n.). Related: Butchered; butchering. Re-nouned 1640s as butcherer.

butcher (n.)

c. 1300, from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frankish *bukk or some other Germanic source (see buck (n.1)) or Celtic *bukkos "he-goat." Figurative sense of "brutal murderer" is attested from 1520s. Butcher-knife attested from 18c. Related: Butcherly. Old English had flæscmangere "butcher" ('flesh-monger').

1. Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon.

在法国，克劳斯·巴比是臭名昭著的“里昂屠夫”。

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2. Ask the butcher for soup bones (marrow bones are best).

跟肉铺老板要煲汤用的骨头（最好是髓骨）。

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3. The butcher's son called out a greeting.

屠夫的儿子大声打了个招呼。

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4. My grandfather was a butcher.

我祖父是个屠夫。

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5. He owns the butcher's in the main street.

他在大街上开了一家肉铺。

来自《权威词典》