Ram
[ræm]
解释:
(noun.) uncastrated adult male sheep; 'a British term is `tup''.
(noun.) a tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
(verb.) strike or drive against with a heavy impact; 'ram the gate with a sledgehammer'; 'pound on the door'.
杰拉尔德编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
贝莎整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Male sheep.[2]. Aries, the vernal sign.[3]. Battering-ram.[4]. Hydraulic ram, water-ram.
v. a. Drive down, force down.
格里塔手打
解释:
n. a male sheep a tup: (astron.) Aries (q.v.) one of the signs of the zodiac: an engine of war for battering with a head like that of a ram: a hydraulic engine called water-ram: a ship-of-war armed with a heavy iron beak for running down a hostile vessel.—v.t. to thrust with violence as a ram with its head: to force together: to drive hard down:—pr.p. ram′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. rammed.—n. Ram′-head an iron lever for raising great stones: a cuckold.
adj. strong-scented: (used as a prefix) very.—n. Ram′-cat a tom-cat.—adj. Ram′mish strong-scented: lewd.—n. Ram′mishness.—adj. Ram′my.
adj. (her.) attired.
编辑:兰德尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream that a ram pursues you, foretells that some misfortune threatens you. To see one quietly grazing denotes that you will have powerful friends, who will use their best efforts for your good. See Sheep and Lamb.
手打:玛吉
例句:
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- With this vessel and the ram Webb, which they had had for some time in the Red River, and two other steamers, they followed the Indianola. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The Ram collapsed with the collapse of the Fenian movement. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- That's what she did, said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; she Ram-paged out, Pip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Equally well remembered is a dangerous encounter with a ram that attacked him while he was busily engaged digging out a bumblebee's nest near an orchard fence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She sot down, said Joe, and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Some were rammed by the rear ships of their own side. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They, however, require increased power and longer time to ram down the ball in loading, and the risk of bursting the gun is increased if the ball be not rammed close upon the powder. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- In hydraulics there are rams, water closets, pumps, and turbine water wheels. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Against the walls he also moored ships in which towers and rams were erected. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The space occupied by this rammer in the rear of the gun is less than one foot, with a possible ramming stroke of fifteen feet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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