slaughter

英 ['slɔːtə] 美['slɔtɚ]

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第三人称单数: slaughters;过去式: slaughtered;过去分词: slaughtered;现在分词: slaughtering;

1. slay => slaught- => slaughter.
2. slaughter―― 死+ 狂笑+人. 想想日本鬼子边杀人边笑的感觉.在大屠杀 vt.&n.屠杀，屠宰
3. 词源：slay-屠杀，联想：sl-死拉死拉地，整词谐音“死老多”

slaughter 屠宰，宰杀，屠杀

来自 slay,屠宰，宰杀，-ghter,名词后缀，比较 laughter.引申比喻义屠杀。

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, *slæht, 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，每年大量捕杀野生动物的现象令人震惊。

2. The barbaric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.: 对鲸的野蛮屠杀既不必要也不人道。