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英:[ˈʃi:phɜ:də(r)]
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sheep·herd·er
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sheepherding (adj.), sheepherding (n.)
词根:sheepman
n.sheepman 养羊人;牧羊业者
sheepwalk 牧羊场(等于sheep range)
The first known use of sheepherder was in 1871
sheer1 of 4adjective
very thin or transparent
sheer stockings
being such to the fullest degree : utter
sheer nonsense
taken or acting apart from everything else
by sheer force
very steep : being almost straight up and down
a sheer drop to the sea
sheer2 of 4adverb
in a complete manner : altogether
straight up or down with no break : perpendicularly
sheer3 of 4verb
to swerve from a course
sheer4 of 4noun
a turn or change in the course of a ship
sheepskinnoun
the skin of a sheep or leather made from it
diploma
sheepsheadnoun
any of several fishesespecially: a food fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S. with broad front teeth
sheepishadjective
resembling a sheep (as in being meek or shy)
embarrassed especially over being found out in a fault
a sheepish look
sheepishadjective
resembling a sheep (as in being meek or shy)
embarrassed especially over being found out in a fault
a sheepish look
sheepherdernoun
a worker in charge of a flock of sheep
1 His mother died of cancer several months after he was born, and his father sent the boy and a sister to live with their grandparents in Montrose, Colo., while he worked as a sheepherder.
2 The 35-year-old worked as a sheepherder on a grazing allotment in the San Juan National Forest near Durango, a small city in the southwest part of the state, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
3 They often follow their flocks’ peregrinations on foot, like previous generations of immigrant sheepherders, performing a job that has endured since biblical times.
4 But the sheepherder merely chucked all these iridescent artifacts into a great gleaming pile and flailed away some more with his shovel.
5 A minute or two after that, he walks off the field, trailed by a sheepherder of a Mets public relations man.
6 Vicki Olson, 63, owns a ranch with her sister, Nancy Ereaux, 54, and their husbands, near the Canadian border in north-central Montana, on ground her Basque sheepherder ancestors homesteaded over a hundred years ago.
7 He was living in the U.S. as a miner and previously was a sheepherder in Gooding.
8 A few days later, the angel came back to thank the sheepherder and asked what he wanted.
过了几天,天使来答谢牧羊人,问他要什么。
9 Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.
10 Read some of the Statesman’s award-winning articles which included coverage of the University of Idaho homicides, Idaho’s sheepherders, the state’s faith-healing exemption and more.
11 I wished so much that this war would be over and I could go back to being just a Navajo sheepherder again.
12 Based on the breed, investigators believe the mother was a sheepherder that ventured off to give birth to her litter sometime in the summer.
13 Angels from heaven choose for their audience a scraggly band of sheepherders with dirty hands and the stink of work upon them.
14 No matter, though, the sheepherder grabbed a shovel and set to, vehemently attacking the earth under which his dog apparently was trapped.
15 Among the principals is George Carmack, a California sheepherder and Marine Corps deserter who found a new life among Tagish Indians.
16 To become permanent residents, sheepherders must be sponsored by their employers, which Mr. Mendoza and other sheepherders say that ranchers are not inclined to do.
17 Eligible for U.S. permanent residency — which current workers on temporary visas are not entitled to by law — many European sheepherders eventually stayed and put down roots in their adopted country.
18 “You know, Tony,” he added, “I think I will become a sheepherder.”
19 Confused, the sheepherder invoked Saint Anthony’s aid, even though that saint possessed nowhere near Santa Inez’s power when it came to locating lost pets.
20 “Most of his life my old man was a sheepherder,” Joe said.