Foal
[fəʊl] or [fol]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
费理斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Colt.
整理:凯蒂
解釋/意思:
n. the young of a mare or of a she-ass.—v.i. and v.t. to bring forth a foal.—ns. Foal′foot colts-foot; Foal′ing bringing forth of a foal or young.
編輯:雷金纳德
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a foal, indicates new undertakings in which you will be rather fortunate.
編輯:朗达
例句/造句/用法:
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He rode into the city upon the foal of an ass that had been borrowed by his disciples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The stripes are often plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disappear in old horses. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It has been asserted that these are plainest in the foal, and from inquiries which I have made, I believe this to be true. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Thou art no colt of a girl with cropped head and the movement of a foal still wet from its mother. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Colonel Poole has seen both gray and bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
校對:路易斯