詞彙精選：slaughter的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

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n.

屠宰，宰殺

例句：

The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.

在意大利，每年大量捕殺野生動物的現象令人震驚。

例句：

More than 491,000 sheep were exported to the Continent for slaughter last year.

去年有491,000 多隻羊被出口到歐洲大陸供宰殺。

殺戮，屠殺，殘殺，濫殺

例句：

He had no strong feelings about human slaughter.

他對人類殘殺沒有強烈的感情。

例句：

He waded through slaughter to the throne.

他行殺戮而得王位。

v.

屠宰，宰殺

例句：

There is a campaign against those hunters who mercilessly slaughter baby seal.

一場反對那些殘酷屠殺小海豹的獵手的運動正在展開。

例句：

Millions of cattle are slaughtered every day.

每天有數百萬頭牛被屠殺。

殺戮，屠殺，殘殺，濫殺

例句：

Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.

數百名無辜平民遭殘殺。

例句：

Thirty four people were slaughtered while queuing up to cast their votes.

有34人在排隊投票時遭到殘殺。

二、詞義辨析：

kill,murder,slaughter,massacre,assassinate,execute

這些動詞均有“殺，殺死”之意。kill普通用詞，含義廣泛，泛指以任何方式使人、動物或植物死亡。murder指謀殺或兇殺。slaughter本義指大批宰殺動物，也指像屠宰牲畜一樣一次殺死許多人。massacre語氣比slaughter強。指大屠殺，尤指屠殺失去了自衛能力的人。assassinate通常指因政治原因用非法手段殺害政治領袖人物或短名人士。execute指依法處死罪犯。

三、參考例句：

He waded through slaughter to the throne.

他行殺戮而得王位。

The genocidal mass slaughter in Rwanda shocked the whole world.

發生在盧旺達的種族大屠殺震驚了整個世界。

The war is the wholesale slaughter of innocent people.

這場戰爭是對無辜人民的大規模屠殺。

After the slaughter, the battlefield was a gruesome sight.

經過這場廝殺，戰場上一派觸目驚心的慘狀。

The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.

在意大利，每年大量捕殺野生動物的現象令人震驚。

The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.

在意大利，每年大量捕殺野生動物的現象令人震驚。

There was a wholesale slaughter when the police opened fire.

警方開火後,造成嚴重的傷亡。

The panic of mouth and foot disease caused the British government to slaughter millions of cattle.

口蹄疫帶來的恐慌，使英國政府屠殺了數百萬頭牲口。

Bovine TB led to the slaughter of almost twenty-five thousand cattle in England last year.

英國去年受牛結核病影響屠宰了近25000頭牛。

More than 491,000 sheep were exported to the Continent for slaughter last year.

去年有491,000 多隻羊被出口到歐洲大陸供宰殺。