英:[ˈkætl]
美:[ˈkætl]
英:[ˈkætl]
美:[ˈkætl]
cat·tle
kae tl
词根:cattle
n.cattleship 载运牲畜的船
Noun
1. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age;
"so many head of cattle"
"wait till the cows come home"
"seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible
"a team of oxen"
beef cattle菜牛
dairy cattle奶牛;乳畜
cattle hide牛皮
cattle breeding牛饲养;畜牧
cattle farm养牛场,奶牛场
black cattle菜牛;肉牛;黑奴;供食肉类的牲口
herds of cattlen. 牧群
这组词都有“动物”的意思,其区别是:
beast指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。
brute特指野兽。用于人时,突出其野蛮或残忍。
creature通常指生物或动物,与非生动相对。指人时,则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。
cattle指大牲畜,尤其指牛。
animal普通用词,指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。
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公元13世纪中期,“财产”包括金钱、土地或收入在内; 源自盎格鲁-法语“ catel ”(古北法语“ catel ”,古法语“ chatel ”),出自中世纪拉丁语“ capitale ”“property, stock”,为拉丁形容词“ capitalis ”(字面意思为“关键的,首要的”,源自“ caput ”(所有格“ capitis ”)“头”(源自 PIE 词根“ *kaput- ”“头”)的中性名词化)。可与 fee 、 pecuniary 进行意义比较。还可与代表同一词源的词 chattel 进行比较(是一种同源词)。
在后期中古英语中,尤其指“动产、牲畜”(14世纪初),包括马、绵羊、驴等动物; 自16世纪后期,它开始被限制为“牛和公牛”。
Middle English catel, cadel "property (whether real or personal), goods, treasure, livestock, (in plural cateles) possessions," borrowed from Anglo-French katil "property, goods, wealth," borrowed from medieval French (dialects of Picardy and French Flanders) catel, going back to Medieval Latin capitāle "movable property, riches," (in Anglo-Saxon law texts) "head of cattle," noun derivative from neuter of capitālis "of the head, chief, principal" — more at capital >entry 1 Note: Note that the spelling cattle is uncommon before the eighteenth century. Anglo-French katil is a variant of chatel—see chattel, which is a doublet of this word. Though the variant with [k] is rare in Anglo-French, catel is frequent and used almost interchangeably with chatel in Middle English. The sense "livestock," however, is only attached to catel, to judge from citations in the Middle English Dictionary. — Regarding the meaning "movable property, riches" of capitālis see the note at capital >entry 2.
The first known use of cattle was in the 14th century
caucusnoun
a closed meeting of members of a political party or faction usually to select candidates or decide policy
caucusnoun
a closed meeting of members of a political party or faction usually to select candidates or decide policy
catwalknoun
a narrow walk or way (as along a bridge)
cattyadjective
resembling a cat
mean in a sly way
catty remarks
cattlemannoun
a person who raises cattle
cattlenoun
domestic four-footed animals held as property or raised for useespecially: bovine animals (as cows, bulls, or steers) kept on a farm or ranch
1 Who drill you diet you treat you like cattle cannon fodder.
他们练习你们,供养你们,像牲口似的对待你们,把你们视如炮灰.
2 In order to get them away from ticks, the cattle had been taken down to the lowlands.
3 Slaughtering four hundred head of cattle an hour would promptly come to an end—for who could stand the sight?
4 The old stone cattle trough still sits by the main entrance.
那尊古老的石制牛食槽依旧位于主要入口处。
5 The cattle were put out to pasture.
牛群放牧在牧场草地上。
6 I found a stick in the treeline at the edge of the field and began driving the cattle home.
7 There, with the huddled masses, she and her son are herded through cattle pens to be examined by doctors for sickness or disease.
8 One of Kaztauskis’s fellow workers had a different way of looking at it: “They get all the blood out of those cattle and all the work out of us men.”
9 They tended the crops and watched over the cattle, just as ordinary children did during the daytime.
10 They lowered their great heads, and the evening air filled with the muffled sounds of smacking lips, tearing grass, and the low snuffling of contented cattle.
11 Part of the five hundred dollar deal was that Ulibarri would deliver the cattle.
12 Huge open fields with herds of dairy cattle grazing in them.
13 Longfellow Deeds: He talks about women as if they were cattle.
第兹: 他像谈论牲口一样谈论女人.
14 A new business emerged—cattle, pigs, and chickens started being stuffed full of corn in large factory-type operations called feedlots.
15 Encircling the property, contentedly grazing on the rich land, was a herd of at least fifty cattle and perhaps five hundred sheep.
16 Outside, two old boys lingered on the street corner discussing cattle.
两个老头儿在外面街角迟迟不走,聊着牛的事情。
17 Down in the locker were a few cattle and sheep and pigs and horses hanging from iron hooks.
18 He entered a world of clamor, smoke, and steam, refulgent with the scents of murdered cattle and pigs.
19 When the train finally stopped outside Dachau, we were taken out of the cattle cars.
20 The close similarity of the measles virus to the rinderpest virus suggests that the latter transferred from cattle to humans and then evolved into the measles virus by changing its properties to adapt to us.
4 牛科
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5 牛
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6 马
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9 家牛
11 牲口