Buffalo
['bʌfələʊ] or ['bʌfəlo]
解释:
(noun.) meat from an American bison.
(noun.) a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls).
(verb.) intimidate or overawe.
录入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
(n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
(n.) Any species of wild ox.
(n.) The bison of North America.
(n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
(n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
录入:萨姆纳
同义词及近义词：
n. [U. S.] Bison.
整理:奥蒂斯
解释:
n. a genus of the ox kind the tame often domesticated Asiatic buffalo and the entirely wild and fierce Cape buffalo. The so-called American buffalo is really a 'bison.'
校对:罗杰
娱乐性解释：
If a woman dreams that she kills a lot of buffaloes, she will undertake a stupendous enterprise, but by enforcing will power and leaving off material pleasures, she will win commendation from men, and may receive long wished for favors. Buffalo, seen in a dream, augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies. They will boldly declare against you but by diplomacy you will escape much misfortune.
编辑:谢恩
例句:
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- These included the chief cities on the seaboard, Buffalo, Chicago, and Omaha. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Following their début on the motor tandem at Buffalo, this pair proceeded to make records throughout the country, several of which still stand today. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- American game of all kinds are kept here, from buffalo, elk, and moose to the smaller and more timid varieties, and there has been a rapid increase. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The machine which he produced with a motor of his own design was entered in some big races at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 where nearly every record was broken. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don't half see them at church. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Here are the two buffaloes, said Rachel. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
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