slay
slay 英 [sleɪ] 美 [sle]
vt. 杀害，杀死；使禁不住大笑 vi. 杀死，杀害；残杀
进行时:slaying 过去式:slew 过去分词:slain 第三人称单数:slays 名词复数:slays
- Slay means to kill in a violent way. It has a mythic quality. You might slay the red knight. You might slay the dragon. You might slay the demon. But you probably wouldn't slay an annoying mosquito.
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- vt. 杀害，杀死；使禁不住大笑
- vi. 杀死，杀害；残杀
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1. Maybe I should cheat again, and pick out the letters I need to spell SLASH or slay.
也许，我应该再做一次弊，拿出我需要的单词，拼出SLASH （鞭打）或是SLAY（残杀）。
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2. But he thrust her back frowning, and said to her, `If thou keepest not the promise that thou madest to me I will slay thee for a false witch.
但他却皱着眉头把她推开了。 他对她说：“若你不遵守与我的诺言，我便把你当作一个伪女巫杀死。”
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3. I did therefore thus:—I called thisherdsman and delivered the child to him, saying first that thou wert he whobade him slay it—and in this at least I did not lie, for thou didst so command.
最终我是这样做的：我找来这个牧人并把孩子给了他，首先告诉他说是您吩咐他杀死它，——我这样说不能算是说谎，因为的确是您下的这样的命令。
- slay (n.) "instrument on a weaver's loom to beat up the weft," Old English slæ, slea, slahae, from root meaning "strike" (see slay (v.)), so called from "striking" the web together. Hence the surname Slaymaker "maker of slays."
- slay (v.) Old English slean "to smite, strike, beat," also "to kill with a weapon, slaughter" (class VI strong verb; past tense sloh, slog, past participle slagen), from Proto-Germanic *slahan, from root *slog- "to hit" (source also of Old Norse and Old Frisian sla, Danish slaa, Middle Dutch slaen, Dutch slaan, Old High German slahan, German schlagen, Gothic slahan "to strike"). The Germanic words are from PIE root *slak- "to strike" (source also of Middle Irish past participle slactha "struck," slacc "sword").
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