Lamb
[læm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) young sheep.
(noun.) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food.
(noun.) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child).
(noun.) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters).
(noun.) English essayist (1775-1834).
(verb.) give birth to a lamb; 'the ewe lambed'.
伊万杰琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The young of the sheep.
(n.) Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
(n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
(v. i.) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
錄入:奥维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Young sheep.
編輯:凯利
解釋/意思:
n. the young of a sheep: the flesh of the young sheep: one innocent and gentle as a lamb: the Saviour of the world.—v.i. to bring forth young as sheep.—ns. Lamb′-ale a feast at the time of lamb-shearing; Lamb′kin Lamb′ling Lamb′ie (Scot.) a little lamb.—adj. Lamb′-like like a lamb: gentle.—ns. Lamb′skin the skin of a lamb dressed with the wool on for mats &c.: the skin of a lamb dressed for gloves: a kind of woollen cloth resembling this; Lamb's′-lett′uce (same as Corn-salad); Lamb's′-wool fine wool: a wholesome old English beverage composed of ale and the pulp of roasted apples with sugar and spices.—The Lamb Lamb of God the Saviour typified by the paschal lamb.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of lambs frolicing{sic} in green pastures, betokens chaste friendships and joys. Bounteous and profitable crops to the farmers, and increase of possessions for others. To see a dead lamb, signifies sadness and desolation. Blood showing on the white fleece of a lamb, denotes that innocent ones will suffer from betrayal through the wrong doing of others. A lost lamb, denotes that wayward people will be under your influence, and you should be careful of your conduct. To see lamb skins, denotes comfort and pleasure usurped from others. To slaughter a lamb for domestic uses, prosperity will be gained through the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment. To eat lamb chops, denotes illness, and much anxiety over the welfare of children. To see lambs taking nourishment from their mothers, denotes happiness through pleasant and intelligent home companions, and many lovable and beautiful children. To dream that dogs, or wolves devour lambs, innocent people will suffer at the hands of insinuating and designing villains. To hear the bleating of lambs, your generosity will be appealed to. To see them in a winter storm, or rain, denotes disappointment in expected enjoyment and betterment of fortune. To own lambs in your dreams, signifies that your environments will be pleasant and profitable. If you carry lambs in your arms, you will be encumbered with happy cares upon which you will lavish a wealth of devotion, and no expense will be regretted in responding to appeals from the objects of your affection. To shear lambs, shows that you will be cold and mercenary. You will be honest, but inhumane. For a woman to dream that she is peeling the skin from a lamb, and while doing so, she discovers that it is her child, denotes that she will cause others sorrow which will also rebound to her grief and loss. ??????????``Fair prototype of innocence, ???????????????Sleep upon thy emerald bed, ??????????No coming evil vents ???????????????A shade above thy head.'' See Sheep.
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例句/造句/用法:
- George Lamb and Elliston together, after they had listened to a page or two, with one voice exclaimed, Very stupid. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I asked George Lamb if he had heard Mr. Livius's new piece. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- That he may let me know how you behave, answered Frederick Lamb. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I can't help it--There's no getting on with Fred Lamb. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb,' etc. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I told you Munden's day was over, and that he would not fill the house, before you engaged him for to-night, said George Lamb. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Next I reflected that Frederick Lamb was younger than the Prince; but then again, a Prince of Wales! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The next day, being of course deeply affected with Fred Lamb's absence, I went to call on Julia, _pour me distraire. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Like a lamb,' rejoined Nancy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We were soon joined by my own faithful Frederick's brother, the honourable George Lamb, to whom I was presented by Livius. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- George Lamb begged leave to differ in opinion; because he wanted his supper. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Fred Lamb, I thought, must know that these resources cannot last for ever; therefore I am determined not to speak to him on the subject. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They entered into general combinations to eat no more lamb; and very few lambs were killed last year. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Wot's the diwisions of water, my lambs? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Leastways, lambs,' said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes, 'that's wot I my own self sometimes ketches in rivers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Being here and having met with your kind attention, Master, might I, afore I go, ask a question of these here young lambs of yourn? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Try to be sociable at the Lambs'. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She knows what our real objects are, and she don't have any more alarms or suspicions about us, than if we was so many lambs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Abel has done well with the lambs this year. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Here's a lovely flock of lambs all lying down, says Amy. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- For strike me blind, my lambs, if I didn't ketch in a river the wery bundle under my arm! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- See if the Lambs don't say, 'What a lively, nice creature that Jo March is! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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 is also a process called tawing, which is employed chiefly in the preparation of the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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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