Calf
[kɑːf] or [kæf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) young of domestic cattle.
(noun.) young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo.
(noun.) the muscular back part of the shank.
(noun.) fine leather from the skin of a calf.
凯茜錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
編輯:奥尔加
解釋/意思:
as marine mammals: calf-skin leather bookbinding in such: a stupid or a cowardly person:—pl. Calvesns. Calf′-love an attachment between a boy and girl; Calf's′-foot Calves'-foot the foot of the calf used in making a palatable jelly; Calf′-skin the skin of the calf making a good leather for bookbinding and shoes.—Divinity calf a dark-brown calf bookbinding with blind stamping and without gilding—common in the binding of theological books; Golden calf the idol set up by Aaron during the absence of Moses on Sinai or those erected by Jeroboam at Bethel and Dan: worship of Mammon or wealth; Half-calf a bookbinding in which the back and corners are in calf-skin; Mottled calf a light coloured bookbinding decorated by the sprinkling of acid in drops; Smooth calf a binding in plain or undecorated calf leather.—The calves of our lips (Hosea xiv. 2) an offering of praise (the Septuagint reads 'The fruit of our lips').—Tree calf a bright brown calf bookbinding stained by acids with a pattern resembling the trunk and branches of a tree.
with a thin poor calf.
錄入:昆西
例句/造句/用法:
- Calf-worship was never more idolatrous than this. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I have no less than two hundred volumes in calf, and I flatter myself they are well selected. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I do wonder if any of us will ever get our wishes, said Laurie, chewing grass like a meditative calf. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Now they were crusted and the knee was swollen and discolored and the calf sunken but there was no pus. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Sordo was wounded in the calf of his leg and in two places in his left arm. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And he, Loerke, had understanding where Gerald was a calf. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He bites footmen's calves. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Parchment manufactured from the skins of young calves, kids, lambs, sheep, and goats, was an early rival of papyrus, and was known and used in Europe before papyrus was there introduced. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There are perhaps some little calves, some little new-yeaned lambs--it may be twins, whose mothers have rejected them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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