Bull
[bʊl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a serious and ludicrous blunder; 'he made a bad bull of the assignment'.
(noun.) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle.
(noun.) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.
(noun.) a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla).
(noun.) a large and strong and heavyset man; 'he was a bull of a man'; 'a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got'.
(noun.) an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later.
(noun.) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
(verb.) advance in price; 'stocks were bulling'.
(verb.) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying.
(verb.) push or force; 'He bulled through his demands'.
編輯:摩尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
(n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
(v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
(v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
(v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
編輯:陌莉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Male of bovine animals.[2]. Edict (issued by the Pope), rescript.[3]. Blunder (involving a contradiction), gross mistake.[4]. (Astron.) Taurus.
編輯:珀西
解釋/意思:
n. a ludicrous blunder in speech implying some obvious absurdity or contradiction often said to be an especial prerogative of Irishmen—'I was a fine child but they changed me.'
n. an edict of the pope which has his seal affixed.—adj. Bullan′tic—n. Bull′ary a collection of papal bulls.
n. drink made by pouring water into a cask that had held liquor.
n. the male of the ox kind: an old male whale fur-seal &c.: a sign of the zodiac: one who tries artificially and unduly to raise the price of stocks and speculates on a rise.—adj. denoting largeness of size—used in composition as bull-trout: favourable to the bulls rising.—v.t. to try to raise as the price of shares artificially: to copulate with a cow of a bull.—v.i. to be in heat of a cow.—ns. Bull′-baiting the sport of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs; Bull′-bat (U.S.) the night-hawk or goat-sucker; Bull′-beef the beef or flesh of bulls coarse beef: (Shak. in pl.) Bull′-beeves; Bull′-begg′ar a hobgoblin &c.; Bull′-calf a male calf: a stupid fellow a lout; Bull′-dance a dance of men only; Bull′dog a breed of dogs of great courage formerly used for baiting bulls its general appearance that of a smooth-coated compact dog low in stature but broad and powerful with a massive head large in proportion to its body: a person of obstinate courage: a short-barrelled revolver of large calibre: a proctor's attendant at Oxford and Cambridge.—v.t. Bull′-dose (U.S.) to intimidate bully: flog.—n. Bull′-dōs′er.—adj. Bull′-faced having a large face.—ns. Bull′-fight a popular spectacle in Spain in which a bull is goaded to fury in a kind of circus by mounted picadores armed with lances and finally despatched by a specially skilful espada or swordsman; Bull′-fight′er; Bull′-finch a species of red-breasted finch a little larger than the common linnet closely allied to the grossbeaks and crossbills: a kind of hedge hard to jump; Bull′-frog a large North American frog.—adj. Bull′-front′ed having a front or forehead like a bull.—n. Bull′-head or Miller's Thumb a small river fish remarkable for its large flat head.—adj. Bull′-head′ed impetuous and obstinate.—n. Bull′-head′edness.—adj. Bull′ish.—ns. Bull′ock an ox or castrated bull; Bull′-roar′er a provincial English name for a boy's plaything made of an oblong piece of wood to one end of which a string is tied then twisted tightly round the finger when the whole is whirled rapidly round and round until a loud and peculiar whirring noise is produced—the native Australian turndun the rhombos of the Greek mysteries; Bull's′-eye the central boss formed in making a sheet of blown glass (hence adj. Bull's′-eyed) a round piece of glass in a lantern a policeman's lantern a round opening or window: the centre of a target of a different colour from the rest and usually round: a thick lump of coloured or striped candy; Bull′-terr′ier a species of dog a cross-breed between the bulldog and the terrier; Bull′-trout a large trout of the salmon genus also migratory in its habits often called the Gray Trout; Bull′-whack a heavy whip.—v.t. to lash with such.—n. Bull′wort the bishop's weed.—Bull into to plunge hastily into.—A bull in a china-shop a synonym for a man who does harm through ignorance or fury a man completely out of place.—Take the bull by the horns to face a danger or difficulty with courage to take the initiative boldly in a struggle.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you. If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of marriage, but, by declining this offer, she will better her fortune. To see a bull goring a person, misfortune from unwisely using another's possessions will overtake you. To dream of a white bull, denotes that you will lift yourself up to a higher plane of life than those who persist in making material things their God. It usually denotes gain.
卡梅拉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- You were enormous in the last bull, she would say to him and he would say, Yes, I killed him very well. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They met once a week at Goddard's in Wood Street, at the Bull's Head Tavern in Cheapside, and at Gresham Colleg e. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was surely not gored by a bull? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- That is felt on all hands to be a shot in the bull's eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Why, he began by being a small Shropshire farmer before they made a baited bull of him, said Mr. George. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars, said Front-de-Boeuf, have we a real monk this time, or another impostor? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He'll probably leave tracks like an old bull elk spooking out of the country and work way up and then when the snow melts circle back below. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The bull has not yet come out. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Without more ado, therefore, I turned to meet the charge of the infuriated bull ape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- On the occasion when I was present one of the bulls was not turned aside by the attacks in the rear, the presentations of the red flag, etc. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He was short of stature and he had a thin voice and much fear of bulls. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- 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. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- At these sports there are usually from four to six bulls sacrificed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Several bulls are so disposed of in a single day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Do you like the bulls, Comrade Dynamiter? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The little township of Bashan was once the kingdom so famous in Scripture for its bulls and its oaks. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Like two charging bulls they came together, and like two wolves sought each other's throat. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Nor may they imitate the neighing of horses, the bellowing of bulls, the murmur of rivers and roll of the ocean, thunder, and all that sort of thing? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I've probably seen him run through the streets ahead of the bulls at the feria in Pamplona, Robert Jordan thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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