刀用得好：肉的手藝與場所
最貼近核心畫面的一組：刀用得準、用得省，於是成為一門職業，也成為一個地方的名字。
noun · C1
The work of cutting up animals into meat and getting that meat ready to be sold.
肉品分切；屠宰加工
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a butcher at a block, with a blade and a whole animal in front of him. Everything the word does comes from that scene, and it depends on how the blade is used. Used with skill, it is a trade, and the place where the trade happens takes the same name. Used on people, it becomes the ugliest thing you can say about a killing. Used on something that was whole — a song, a name, a piece of work — it means the thing has been hacked to pieces.
可以想成一個屠夫站在砧板前，手上一把刀，面前是一整隻動物。這個字所有的意思，都從這個畫面長出來，差別只在刀怎麼用。刀…更多收起
可以想成一個屠夫站在砧板前，手上一把刀，面前是一整隻動物。這個字所有的意思，都從這個畫面長出來，差別只在刀怎麼用。刀用得好，那是一門手藝，做這件事的地方也跟著叫這個名字。刀用在人身上，就成了形容殺戮最難聽的一個字。刀亂揮在一首歌、一個名字、一份工作上，意思就是好好的東西被剁爛了。From the word’s history
The packet source traces butchery to Middle English bocherie, from Old French, in the family of butcher — so the trade sense is where the word starts.
來源資料說 butchery 來自中古英語 bocherie，再往前是古法語，和 butcher（屠夫）同一家。這正好說明為什麼「屠夫的工作」是這個字的出發點，其他意思都是從那把刀延伸出去的。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
Three branches
刀用在人身上：殘殺
同樣的畫面，換掉砧板上的對象。人被當成肉來處理，這個比喻本身就是譴責。
noun · C1
The cruel and needless killing of people or animals, spoken about with anger and disgust — as if lives were being cut up the way a butcher cuts up meat.
屠殺；殘殺
刀亂揮：把事情剁爛
還是同一把刀，只是砍的對象換成作品、語言或名字。沒有人受傷，毀掉的是完整。
noun · C1
A badly ruined job — when someone handles a song, a name, a language or a piece of work so roughly that it is spoiled.
糟蹋；亂搞一通