Mule
[mjuːl] or [mjul]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile.
(noun.) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
(n.) A very stubborn person.
(n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
手打:洛伊斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Hybrid, mongrel, hinny.
錄入:泰茜
解釋/意思:
n. the offspring of the horse and ass: an instrument for cotton-spinning: an obstinate person.—ns. Mūle′-deer the black-tail of North America; Mūleteer′ one who drives mules.—adj. Mūl′ish like a mule: obstinate.—adv. Mūl′ishly.—n. Mūl′ishness.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety, but if you reach your destination without interruption, you will be recompensed with substantial results. For a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy foreigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes. If she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers, but no offers of marriage. To be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage. To see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline.
手打:穆里尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Yet they speak of the mule as stubborn, the woman said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- With a man on each side holding these ropes, the mule was released from his other bindings and allowed to rise. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They had generally made their escape with a team or two, sometimes a yoke of oxen with a mule or a horse in the lead. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The spinning machine is simply an improved form of Crompton's mule, already described. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The mule spinner shown in Fig. 287 is a good modern example of this machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A lasso was then thrown over the neck of a mule, when he would immediately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This time, about half of that side of the house came in with the mule. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Every lady must doubtless be incommoded by having to do with that proverbially unaccommodating animal, the mule. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Thirty wagons also, counting two two-horse or mule teams as one, will be allowed to transport such articles as cannot be carried along. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At all events the Corpus Christi mule resisted the new use to which he was being put. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The mule entirely superseded the use of the jenny. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Five mules were allotted to each wagon. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He is then dragged out by horses or mules, another is let into the ring, and the same performance is renewed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With a full corps of assistants, other teamsters, he would then proceed to get his mules together. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The machinery was taken up in pieces on the backs of mules from the foot of the mountain. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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.
- Two mules to carry the shells and a mule with a mortar on each side of the pack saddle. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- All goods were put up in compact packages of about one hundred pounds each, suitable for loading on pack mules. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The mules may transport the litter, and we have led horses for the old man and his daughter. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I directed him to take mules, officers' horses, or animals wherever he could get them to move the necessary artillery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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