slay

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v. 杀害, 残杀

发音

US /sleɪ/

词形变化

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教材释义与例句

动词

杀害，杀死；使禁不住大笑

动词

杀死，杀害；残杀

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.

  2. 1.

    Alternative form of sley

v.
  1. 1.

    To kill; to murder.

    杀

    谋杀

    残杀

    文学 及物

    The knight slew the dragon.

    Our foes must all be slain.

  2. 2.

    To eradicate or stamp out.

    文学 及物

    You must slay these thoughts.

  3. 3.

    To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).

    非正式 及物 引申义
  4. 4.

    To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.

    俚语 及物

    Ha ha! You slay me!

  5. 5.

    To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.

    及物/不及物

    Your outfit slays!

  6. 6.

    To have sex with.

    俚语
adj.
  1. 1.

    That slays (in any sense).

interj.
  1. 1.

    Used to express approval or amazement.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

off hit murder rock rule remove dispatch bump off kick ass polish off

上位词 9

kill win succeed excel surpass come through stand out bring home the bacon deliver the goods

下位词 2

burke execute

相关短语

slay queen slay someone in the Spirit slay queens

词源

From Middle English slayn, from Old English slēan (“to hit, punch, strike; to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to hit, strike; to kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Cognates Cognate with Alemannic German schlaa (“to beat, hit”), Central Franconian schlage, schlon, schloon (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch and Low German slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), German schlagen, schlahen, schlahn (“to beat, hit, strike”), Luxembourgish schloen (“to beat, defeat, hit”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish slå (“to beat, hit, strike”), Faroese sláa (“to beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to hit, strike”), Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (slahan, “to hit, smite, strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.

来源：wiktionary