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.
例文
1. The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.
イタリアでは、毎年野生動物を大量に捕殺する現象が衝撃的だ。
2.The barric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
クジラの野蛮な虐殺は必要も人道的でもない。
3.We follow their every word like lambs to the slaughter .
私たちは彼らに完全に言いなりました。
4.The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.