Sheep
[ʃiːp] or [ʃip]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat.
(noun.) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; 'his students followed him like sheep'.
(noun.) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon.
校對:贾斯廷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
手打:梅格
解釋/意思:
n.sing. and pl. the well-known ruminant mammal covered with wool: leather made from sheep-skin: a silly and timid fellow.—ns. Sheep′-bīt′er (Shak.) one who practises petty thefts; Sheep′-bīt′ing robbing those under one's care like an ill-trained shepherd-dog; Sheep′-cote an enclosure for sheep; Sheep′-dog a dog trained to watch sheep: (slang) a chaperon.—adj. Sheep′-faced sheepish bashful.—ns. Sheep′-farm′er Sheep′-fold a fold or enclosure for sheep: a flock of sheep; Sheep′-head Sheep's′-head a fool a stupid and timid person: an American fish of the family Sparid allied to the perches so called from the shape and colour of the head; Sheep′-hook a shepherd's crook.—adj. Sheep′ish like a sheep: bashful: foolishly diffident.—adv. Sheep′ishly.—ns. Sheep′ishness; Sheep′-louse a parasitic dipterous insect; Sheep′-mar′ket a place where sheep are sold; Sheep′-mas′ter a master or owner of sheep; Sheep′-pen an enclosure for sheep; Sheep′-pest the sheep-tick; Sheep′-pox a contagious eruptive disease of sheep variola ovina; Sheep′-run a tract of grazing country for sheep; Sheep's′-eye a modest diffident look: a loving wishful glance; Sheep's′-foot a printer's tool with a claw at one end for prizing up forms; Sheep′-shank (Scot.) the shank of a sheep—hence something slender and weak: a nautical knot for temporarily shortening a rope; Sheep′-shearer one who shears sheep; Sheep′-shearing; Sheep′-shears a kind of shears used for shearing sheep; Sheep′-sil′ver money formerly paid by tenants for release from the service of washing the lord's sheep; Sheep′-skin the skin of a sheep: leather prepared from the skin of a sheep: a deed engrossed on sheep-skin parchment; Sheep′-steal′er; Sheep′-steal′ing; Sheep's′-wool a valuable Florida sponge; Sheep′-tick an insect which attacks the sheep sucking its blood and raising a tumour; Sheep′walk the place where the sheep pasture; Sheep′-wash a lotion for vermin on the sheep or to preserve its wool—also Sheep′-dip; Sheep′-whis′tling tending sheep.—Black sheep the disreputable member of a family or group.
校對:杜鲁门
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you. To see flocks of sheep, there will be much rejoicing among farmers, and other trades will prosper. To see them looking scraggy and sick, you will be thrown into despair by the miscarriage of some plan, which promised rich returns. To eat the flesh of sheep, denotes that ill-natured persons will outrage your feelings. See Lamb and Ram.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But it will soon grow out again, said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I'm a poor black feckless sheep--childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Do you want a sheep hide for thy bed? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn,' says a contemporary, 'and there were none left who could drive them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They gathered around him like the sheep around the watch-dog, when they hear the baying of the wolf. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But it will soon grow out again, said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I'm a poor black feckless sheep--childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Do you want a sheep hide for thy bed? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn,' says a contemporary, 'and there were none left who could drive them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They gathered around him like the sheep around the watch-dog, when they hear the baying of the wolf. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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