butcher是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 屠夫, 残杀者; vt. 屠宰, 屠杀，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well-fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The play-ground was abare gravelled yard, open to all the back of the house and theoffices; and I knew that the servants read it, and the butcher read it,and the baker read it; that everybody, in a word, who camebackwards and forwards to the house, of a morning when I wasordered to walk there, read that I was to be taken care of, for I bit.
-- But I neverallowed myself to be prevailed upon to accept any invitation to eatand drink with them out of their stock (knowing that they got onbadly with the butcher and baker, and had often not too much forthemselves), until Mrs. Micawber took me into her entireconfidence.
-- The shade of a young butcher rises, like the apparition of an armedhead in Macbeth.
-- I meet the butcher by appointment.
-- Sometimes I see the butcher, bloody but confident;sometimes I see nothing, and sit gasping on my second's knee;sometimes I go in at the butcher madly, and cut my knuckles openagainst his face, without appearing to discompose him at all.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet, tempted by every thing and swayed by half a word, was always very long at a purchase; and while she was still hanging over muslins and changing her mind, Emma went to the door for amusement. Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury; Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman 282 Emmatravelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gin-gerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He picked up a fragment of cheese, by pecking upon it with his knife, as a butcher picks up skewers.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The butcher shopscarried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
-- Grant was a butcher who didnot care how many men he slaughtered for a victory, but victory he would have.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow.
-- Then the butcher gave him a flask of ale, saying, 'There, drink and refresh yourself; your cow will give you no milk: don't you see she is an old beast, good for nothing but the slaughter-house?'
-- said Hans, as he gave the butcher the cow; and taking the pig off the wheel-barrow, drove it away, holding it by the string that was tied to its leg.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The milk-man, baker, grocer, and butcher inquired how she did, poor Mrs. Hummel came to beg pardon for her thoughtlessness and to get a shroud for Minna, the neighbors sent all sorts of comforts and good wishes, and even those who knew her best were surprised to find how many friends shy little Beth had made.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car-man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand-boy his parcels; the school-boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now not a moment to lose, for nineteen of the dreadful wretches sat upon the ground, all close huddled together, and had just sent the other two to butcher the poor Christian, and bring him perhaps limb by limb to their fire, and they were stooping down to untie the bands at his feet.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'tis a nice place!A butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He preferred standing off the butcher and baker.
-- It was the same with the butcher and several others.
-- He had been "doing" butcher and baker in order not to call on her.
-- Butcher and grocery man, baker and coal man--not the group with whom he was then dealing, but those who had trusted him to the limit--called.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pushed by a butcher boy, who luckily did not turn to see the nothingness that shoved him aside, and dodged behind the cab-man's four-wheeler.
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