英：['bætu:]
美：['bætu]
battue如何读
battue是什么意思
哄赶猎物；哄赶狩猎；大屠杀；
battue英英释义
Noun:
- a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
- indiscriminate slaughter;
"a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"
"ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"
"the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"
"a huge prison battue was ordered"
battue_林学行业词汇
追捕猎
battue词源英文解释
French, from feminine of battu, past participle of battre to beat
The first known use of battue was in 1816
battue 例句
1 Roast veal has appeared amongst the delicacies of our table since the battue of yesterday, and Christian has asked for a portion of the old bear to carry home to his mother.
2 "It's true that there's much less terre battue than normally," Frenchman Florent Serra said after a match in scorching temperatures, when the courts were playing fast.
3 When one makes its appearance, the authorities generally order a battue.
4 I have already related how the queen persecuted the poor royal wolf with hunts and battues, so that he was the innocent cause of great trouble and inconvenience to the whole wolvine family.
5 While the battue is at its height, one large quadruped is put up which more than any other excites the ardour of those engaged.
6 The ladies walked about a little and followed some battues, and everyone assembled in the drawing-room for tea.
7 Courier, for one, was never averse to what the French call terre battue.
8 To make sure, another grand battue is set on foot to embrace the whole summit area.
9 Now it is the exception for the millionaire not to make the spoils of his fashionable battue pay tithe to those for whom such food is often the best of physic.
10 But he could offer no help in the matter of returning to the battue.
11 His only loss in the tiny principality came in his first appearance in 2003 at age 16, when Guillermo Coria — no slouch on what the French call “terre battue” — beat him in the third round.
12 Two or three battues of this kind take place every year, chiefly for the purpose of destroying the wolves that come in flocks and carry dismay into the sheep-folds.
13 The battue of kangaroos is often rendered imperative by the rapid increase of the marsupials after the disappearance of their old enemies, the aborigines and the dingo.
14 There were five men upon a side, all carrying guns; as we passed, they were shaking hands, preparatory to separating for the battue.
15 During a battue a man is accidentally shot by one of Dorian's guests.
16 Terre battue, which means "beaten earth" in French, is a mixture of crushed brick -- made of fired red clay -- and tile.
17 For the Vee-Boers it was a victory easier than they had anticipated; and over Royalty itself—a battue of grandest game, the kings of beasts.
18 The first day’s diversion was a grand battue.
19 Because of this demand, present and future, European armies march over deserts and jungles, and slay thousands of natives in spectacular battues.
20 He shakes his head if you hint that perhaps it would save trouble to purchase the pheasants ready for shooting from the dealers who now make a business of supplying them for the battue.