Cow
[kaʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'.
(noun.) female of domestic cattle: '`moo-cow' is a child's term'.
(noun.) a large unpleasant woman.
校對:伊薇特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A chimney cap; a cowl
(n.) The mature female of bovine animals.
(n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
(v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
(n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
戈登編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, daunt, subdue by fear.
艾伦錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent
ANT:Countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit
錄入:沃尔特
解釋/意思:
n. the female of the bovine animals: the female of certain other animals as the elephant &c.—older plurals Kine and Kye the latter now only Scotch.—ns. Cow′-bane the water-hemlock often destructive to cattle; Cow′-berr′y the red whortleberry; Cow′-bird -bunt′ing an American starling which accompanies cattle and drops its eggs into other birds' nests; Cow′-boy a boy who has the care of cows: (U.S.) a man who has the charge of cattle on a ranch; Cow′-calf a female calf; Cow′-catch′er (U.S.) an apparatus on the front of railway engines to throw off obstacles; Cow′-cher′vil -pars′ley -weed an umbelliferous European plant of the hedges and woods; Cow′feeder a dairyman cowherd; Cow′-grass the zigzag clover: a variety of red clover; Cow′-heel an ox-foot stewed to a jelly; Cow′herd one who herds cows; Cow′hide the hide of a cow: the hide of a cow made into leather: a coarse whip made of twisted strips of cowhide.—v.t. to whip with a cowhide.—n. Cow′-house a place in which cows are stalled a byre.—adj. Cow′ish like a cow: (Shak.) cowardly.—ns. Cow′-leech a cow-doctor; Cow′lick a tuft of turned-up hair on the forehead; Cow′-pars′nip an umbelliferous plant used as food for hogs and cattle; Cow′-plant a perennial plant of Ceylon with a milky juice; Cow′-pox a disease which appears in pimples on the teats of the cow the matter thereof used for vaccination; Cow′-tree a South American tree that produces a nourishing fluid resembling milk; Cow′-wheat a genus of annual plants with yellow flowers and seeds somewhat like grains of wheat.
v.t. to subdue: keep under: to dishearten.—adjs. Cowed depressed; Cow′ish (Shak.) easily cowed timorous: mean.
艾德蒙編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant fulfilment of hopes and desires. See Cattle.
吉尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Dun Cow--to claim the flitch of bacon? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A great mistake, Chettam, interposed Mr. Brooke, going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing, and making a parlor of your cow-house. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- To this day cow-hide wicker boats (coracles) are used upon the west coast of Ireland, where there is plenty of cattle and a poverty of big trees. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The price of cow hides, as stated in the above account, is nearly in the common proportion to that of ox hides. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Bruff, you have no more imagination than a cow! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The test for the cows was likewise successful. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- They reckoned wealth by cows. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He found that when cows were deprived of food containing fat they still continued to give milk yielding cream or fatty products. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- He bred his cows for milk. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracts of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Sheep-marks there were in profusion, and at one place, some miles down, cows had left their tracks. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Twenty-five cows will eat up the ensilage about as fast as one man can get it out. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- We were so cowed by the sight that I think we should have given the job up if it had not been for Prendergast. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The young man stood looking down at her with sardonic contempt, a cowed, self-conscious look on his thick, pale face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nor would she but for the mortal pang I had given her pride, that cowed her compassion and kept her silent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr. Superintendent proved equal to the occasion; he looked at them with his resolute eye, and he cowed them with his military voice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Rosa was cowed in a moment. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Perfectly cowed by the breadth, the height, the bone, and the brawn of Mrs. Horsfall, they retreated to the back parlour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Something in my voice, I do not know what, cowed the beasts as they sprang to attack me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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