butcher

英 ['b?t??] 美['b?t??]

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復數(shù):?butchers;第三人稱單數(shù):?butchers;過去式:?butchered;過去分詞:?butchered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?butchering;

butcher 屠夫

來自buck, 雄鹿, 公羊。插入字母t. 賣羊肉的人。

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 fl?scmangere "butcher" ('flesh-monger').

1. Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon.: 在法國，克勞斯·巴比是臭名昭著的“里昂屠夫”。

2. Ask the butcher for soup bones (marrow bones are best).: 跟肉鋪老板要煲湯用的骨頭（最好是髓骨）。