slaughter是什么意思，slaughter怎么用
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slaughter
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📰 外刊例句
One reason they are powerhouses of evolution is that they oversee a relentless and prodigious slaughter , mutating as they do so. 它们之所以是进化的推进器，原因之一是它们主导着一场残酷的大规模屠杀，并在此过程中发生突变。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] the killing of animals for food
[名词] 宰杀动物用作食物
💡 深入解读
Slaughter 一词源自古北欧语slatr（屠杀、屠宰肉），其拼写同小站（微信公众号：田间小站）上周推送的onslaught一样，也可能是受现已过时的英语单词 slaught （屠杀）的影响而来。自14世纪进入英语后， slaughter 本质上是一个屠夫专用术语表示“屠宰、宰杀”，多指大批宰杀动物以供食用，
比如：
The ducks are being fattened for slaughter in spring.这些鸭子正在育肥，以便在春季屠宰。
Men, women and children were slaughtered and the quaint seaside village destroyed.从这个概念出发， slaughter 常用来引申指“屠杀、杀戮”，多指在战争中像屠宰大批牲畜那样大规模残酷无情地杀死人或动物，比如：古朴典雅的海滨村庄被毁，男人、女人和儿童惨遭杀戮。
We squandered several good scoring chances and were slaughtered 10–1 by the home team.等到了16世纪30年代，上述这些名词含义也开始相应用作动词。而在口语中作动词时，则常用 slaughter 喻指在体育比赛等竞赛中“大比分击败、轻松击败、使惨败”，就像是将对手屠杀干净了那般，这个概念也可以用作名词，比如：我们浪费了好几次得分机会，以1:10惨败给主队。
Yesterday's game was an absolute slaughter.昨天的比赛绝对是场一边倒的比赛。
📚 名著用例
Anyone who continues to resist, man, woman, or child, will be slaughtered , as will every member of their family. 任何要继续抵抗的人和他们的家人，无论是男是女还是小孩，都会被处死。
— 出自《英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第七本《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》（ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- decimate: to kill large numbers of animals, plants or people in a particular area
- genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
- massacre: an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people
