Withers
['wɪðəz] or ['wɪðɚz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals.
爱德温錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.
康妮手打
解釋/意思:
n.pl. the ridge between the shoulder-bones of a horse and behind the root of the neck.—adj. With′er-wrung injured in the withers.
錄入:山姆
例句/造句/用法:
- The tender plant is produced; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The big gray was sweating and shivering a little and Robert Jordan patted him on the withers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Everything withers in the bud. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And it withers my consciousness, somehow, it burns the pith of my mind. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Sent to a schoolmaster, refuses to tell his letters, and the schoolmaster going to whip him, his hand withers. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
吉塞尔編輯