• vt. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；使惨败
• n. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；消灭
• n. (Slaughter)人名；(英)斯劳特

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, *sl?ht, 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。

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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。

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3. We follow their every word like lambs to the slaughter.

我们对他们完全言听计从。

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4. The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.

屠杀鲸鱼是没有必要的也是不人道的。

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5. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter.

喂肥牛群以宰杀。

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