核心畫面
Picture the person behind the counter of a meat shop: whole animals come in, and the job is to cut them down into pieces people can buy and cook. Knife, block, cutting apart — that is the starting picture, and two things grow out of it: the trade of handling meat, and the plain act of cutting an animal up.
可以想成一個站在肉舖案板後面的人：整頭的牲口送進來，他負責把牠變成一塊一塊能賣、能煮的肉——刀、砧板、分切。這個畫面…更多收起
可以想成一個站在肉舖案板後面的人：整頭的牲口送進來，他負責把牠變成一塊一塊能賣、能煮的肉——刀、砧板、分切。這個畫面裡有兩樣東西後來各自長大：一是「處理肉」這門手藝與行業，二是「下刀把活物剖開」這個動作本身。後面那些比較重、比較兇的意思，幾乎都是從第二樣借出去的。原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Butchername
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A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.
butchernoun詞源 1/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
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A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- 2
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- Butcher of an innocent child.
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slangA look.
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obsoleteinformalA person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
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archaiccard-gamesgamesA king playing card.
butcherverb詞源 1/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
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To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
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To work as a butcher.
- He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
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To kill brutally.
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To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
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To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。