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A slayer is someone (or something) that kills, usually something big, dangerous, or magical — a dragon, a monster, a giant enemy. You will meet this word most in stories, games, and movie titles ('Dragon Slayer', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'). People do not really call soldiers or hunters 'slayers' in everyday talk — the word feels old, epic, and a little bit like a legend. Sometimes people use it as a joke, half-serious, for someone who is at something ('She is a slayer on the dance floor'), but that is playful slang, not the main meaning.
屠殺者、屠龍者(常見於奇幻故事、電玩、電影片名)
組成slay (殺死,尤指殺死強大的敵人) + -er (做這件事的人)
同家族的字
- slayslayer 就是 slay 的人 — 動詞加上 -er 變成做這動作的人
原始詞典資料2 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。
slayernoun/ˈsleɪə/
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A killer; a murderer; someone who slays.
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A butcher.
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。