Beast
[biːst] or [bist]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
(n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
(n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
(n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
(n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
(n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
伊内兹手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Brute (fit for the service of man), quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal.
埃西手打
解釋/意思:
n. an irrational animal as opposed to man: a four-footed animal: a brutal person: the Beast Antichrist in the Revelation—dim. Beast′ies.—n.pl. Beast′-fā′bles stories in which animals play human parts—a widely-spread primitive form of literature often surviving in more or less developed forms in the more advanced civilisations.—ns. Beast′hood; Beast′lihead (Spens.) the state or nature of a beast beastliness; Beast′liness.—adj. Beast′ly like a beast in actions or behaviour: coarse: obscene: (colloq.) vile disagreeable.
伊莱錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Shut the door on him, poor beast! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Damn the beast, if he had as many lives as a cat, he would owe them all to me! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the god in man; and the ignoble that which subjects the man to the beast? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I believe I would rather ride a donkey than any beast in the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Get up, you beast, and work, will yer, or I'll show yer a trick more! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I will get me, he said, my neighbour Buthan's good capul, [55] and I will be at York within as brief space as man and beast may. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Thuvia and I were in the rear, for our beast was lagging more and more. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- No, but deary, if you did--' 'I should be a Beast if I did,' her husband interposed again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Tarzan came quietly above the unsuspecting beast and silently stalked him until he came into a little patch of moonlight. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as they seemed to do on these occasions. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You propose, replied I, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs.--what's the name of them wild beasts with humps, old chap? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Oh, they were brave little beasts, these wild Scotch bullocks, wild and fleecy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But tomorrow, he thought, the beasts will come out of their hole and these that are now so comfortable will die warm in their blankets. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Chained with them were a number of fierce beasts, such as had been turned upon us, and others equally as ferocious. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Hunger was changing them from human beasts to wild beasts. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They saw no signs of natives nor were they molested by wild beasts. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- For a moment the black line held, but only for a moment--then the fearsome beasts that bore equally terrible riders passed completely through it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You may meet with worse enemies than the savage beasts of Africa, replied the Rector obstinately. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Everybody and everything is against us; even the very beasts side against us,--and where shall we go? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
編輯:梅森