词汇精选：slaughter的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
屠宰，宰杀
例句：
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。
例句：
More than 491,000 sheep were exported to the Continent for slaughter last year.
去年有491,000 多只羊被出口到欧洲大陆供宰杀。
杀戮，屠杀，残杀，滥杀
例句：
He had no strong feelings about human slaughter.
他对人类残杀没有强烈的感情。
例句：
He waded through slaughter to the throne.
他行杀戮而得王位。
v.
屠宰，宰杀
例句：
There is a campaign against those hunters who mercilessly slaughter baby seal.
一场反对那些残酷屠杀小海豹的猎手的运动正在展开。
例句：
Millions of cattle are slaughtered every day.
每天有数百万头牛被屠杀。
杀戮，屠杀，残杀，滥杀
例句：
Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.
数百名无辜平民遭残杀。
例句：
Thirty four people were slaughtered while queuing up to cast their votes.
有34人在排队投票时遭到残杀。
二、词义辨析：
kill,murder,slaughter,massacre,assassinate,execute
这些动词均有“杀，杀死”之意。kill普通用词，含义广泛，泛指以任何方式使人、动物或植物死亡。murder指谋杀或凶杀。slaughter本义指大批宰杀动物，也指像屠宰牲畜一样一次杀死许多人。massacre语气比slaughter强。指大屠杀，尤指屠杀失去了自卫能力的人。assassinate通常指因政治原因用非法手段杀害政治领袖人物或短名人士。execute指依法处死罪犯。
三、参考例句：
He waded through slaughter to the throne.
他行杀戮而得王位。
The genocidal mass slaughter in Rwanda shocked the whole world.
发生在卢旺达的种族大屠杀震惊了整个世界。
The war is the wholesale slaughter of innocent people.
这场战争是对无辜人民的大规模屠杀。
After the slaughter, the battlefield was a gruesome sight.
经过这场厮杀，战场上一派触目惊心的惨状。
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。
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。
There was a wholesale slaughter when the police opened fire.
警方开火后,造成严重的伤亡。
The panic of mouth and foot disease caused the British government to slaughter millions of cattle.
口蹄疫带来的恐慌，使英国政府屠杀了数百万头牲口。
Bovine TB led to the slaughter of almost twenty-five thousand cattle in England last year.
英国去年受牛结核病影响屠宰了近25000头牛。
More than 491,000 sheep were exported to the Continent for slaughter last year.
去年有491,000 多只羊被出口到欧洲大陆供宰杀。
