英:[ˈpəʊlkæt]
美:[ˈpoʊlkæt]
英:[ˈpəʊlkæt]
美:[ˈpoʊlkæt]
pole·cat
pol kaet
复数:polecats或polecat
"北欧小型、深棕色、食肉家族的四足动物,以偷鸡和强烈的恶臭而闻名,早在14世纪即被记录下来, pol-cat,源自 cat(名词); 第一个元素可能是来自盎格鲁-法语 pol,源自古法语 poule “家禽,母鸡”(参见 pullet(名词)); 因为它以家禽为食而得名[Skeat]。另一种可能是第一个元素来自古法语 pulent “臭的”。最初是欧洲 Putorius foetidus; 这个名字被扩展到相关的北美臭鼬在1680年代。
Middle English polcat, probably from Middle French poul, pol cock + Middle English cat; probably from its preying on poultry — more at pullet
The first known use of polecat was in the 14th century
polecatnoun
a brown to black European flesh-eating mammal related to the weasels
skunk entry 1 sense 1
1 ENERGY DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION OF POLECAT IN THE ALPINE MEADOW ECOSYSTEM.
高寒草甸生态系统.
2 “Polecat. You know what a polecat is, don’t you?”
3 I also didn’t want to see Hosie Roach, a snot-nosed twenty-one-year-old mill boy in my class who stunk like a polecat and had tow-colored hair so thick and tangled it looked like a cootie stable.
4 However, conservationists are optimistic that polecats will continue to recover in Britain.
5 Here and there a polecat was intermixed, and hunters’ poles in great abundance.
6 Unlike a poison frog or a spraying polecat, this rodent has no chemical weapons to defend itself.
7 He was wearing his long moleskin overcoat and was absentmindedly swinging a dead polecat from one enormous hand.
8 When I think of the word polecat I think of someone with a southern accent saying it.
我一想起这个词,就想到美国南方人带着口音念这个词。
9 About 40% of the UK's polecats are in Wales while volunteer groups are rebuilding habitats to save reptiles and amphibians such as adders, lizards and great crested newts.
10 They share a common ancestor with the European polecat, from which the type of ferret found in pet stores was domesticated more than 2,000 years ago to hunt rabbits and control rodents.
11 But in the good old days of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, to which this show is a pale successor, it would have been a real polecat.
12 He grinned broadly at them and headed off to the staff table, still swinging the polecat.
13 Other threats include growing numbers of polecats dying after eating poisoned rats.
14 It was only natural, they thought, for a boy to act the part of a squirrel or polecat, and to be acquainted with every bird’s nest and rabbit’s burrow within a radius of miles.
15 One introductionist I spoke to, Graham Wellstead, has released hundreds of polecats into the English countryside, helping this once-persecuted small carnivore spread across the south and east of the country once again.
16 The man, Qubus, has seen polecats tortured and killed in the village a few months earlier, and now dreams of polecats coming back to the village to take their revenge.
17 As soon as they reached the first archway, the polecat Gale found them.
18 I hoped he wouldn’t ask what a polecat was.
19 If there are fewer small mammals, there is less food for their natural predators, such as red foxes, steppe polecats, upland buzzards, brown bears and mountain weasels.
20 One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret.
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