Buck
[bʌk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope).
(noun.) United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973).
(verb.) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; 'the yung filly bucked'.
(verb.) resist; 'buck the trend'.
(verb.) to strive with determination; 'John is bucking for a promotion'.
亨廷顿編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
(n.) A male Indian or negro.
(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
(v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
(v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
(n.) The beech tree.
錄入:卡利
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Male (of the deer, sheep, goat, rabbit, and hare).[2]. Blade, spark, gallant; gay, dashing fellow.
編輯:迈尔斯
解釋/意思:
n. the male of the deer goat hare and rabbit—often used specifically of the male of the fallow-deer: a dashing young fellow.—v.i. (of a horse or mule—a Buck′jumper) to attempt to throw by a series of rapid jumps into the air coming down with the back arched the head down and the forelegs stiff: (U.S.) to make obstinate resistance to any improvements.—ns. Buck′een a poor Irish gentleman without means to support his gentility; Buck′-eye the American horse-chestnut; Buck′horn the material of a buck's horn; Buck′-hound a small kind of staghound used for hunting bucks; Buck′-shot a large kind of shot used in shooting deer; Buck′skin a soft leather made of deerskin or sheepskin: a strong twilled woollen cloth cropped of nap and carefully finished.—adj. made of the skin of a buck.—n.pl. Buck′skins breeches made usually of the cloth not of the leather.—ns. Buck′thorn a genus of shrubs the berry of which supplies the sap-green used by painters; Buck′-tooth a projecting tooth.
v.t. to soak or steep in lye a process in bleaching.—n. lye in which clothes are bleached.—n. Buck′-bas′ket a basket in which clothes are carried to be bucked.
編輯:桑德拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Philanthropic old buck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I heard the Major say to Mrs. Crawley yesterday, 'No, no, Becky, you shan't keep the old buck to yourself. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They consisted of a sort of saw-buck with a small mattress on it, and this furniture covered about half the donkey. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The infantry under General Taylor was armed with flint-lock muskets, and paper cartridges charged with powder, buck-shot and ball. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There is many a goodly herd in these forests, and a buck will never be missed that goes to the use of Saint Dunstan's chaplain. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He trampled over all the young bucks of his father's circle, and was the hero among those third-rate men. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Search of events--one would think you were one of the bucks I knew at one-and-twenty. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He bucked her out along the shore Qf the lake and as soon as she was reasonable they went on back along the trail. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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