Corral
[kə'rɑːl] or [kə'ræl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) collect or gather; 'corralling votes for an election'.
(verb.) arrange wagons so that they form a corral.
(verb.) enclose in a corral; 'corral the horses'.
赛勒斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
(v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
安娜贝尔整理
解釋/意思:
n. an enclosure for cattle &c.—v.t. to form such.
整理:梅
例句/造句/用法:
- Robert Jordan slipped through between the double rope of the corral and slapped the buckskin on the haunch. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He looked at her and then at the man, heavy and stolid, moving off through the trees toward the corral. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There were five horses in the rope corral, three bays, a sorrel, and a buckskin. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He knew they could possibly see the horses in the corral if they were looking for anything in these mountains. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And when I saw those four there and thought that we might kill them I was like a mare in the corral waiting for the stallion. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The three of them stood now by the rope corral and the patchy sunlight shone on the coat of the bay stallion. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He's been down corralling the horses, he thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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