cattle

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n. 牛, 家畜 [法] 家畜

发音

/ˈkætəl/
UK /ˈkʰæt(ə)ɫ/
US /ˈkʰæɾ(ə)ɫ/

词形变化

cattles cattled cattles 三单 cattling cattling 现在分词 cattled 过去式 cattled 过去分词

别名

cattel cattell

教材释义与例句

名词

牛；牲畜（骂人的话）；家畜；无价值的人

cows and bull s kept on a farm for their meat or milk

herds of cattle

成群的牛

a cattle rancher

牧牛场场主

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.

    Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.

  2. 2.

    Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.

    家畜

    牲畜

  3. 3.

    People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.

    牛

    家牛

    贬义 比喻

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "Come, that will do," interrupted Joolby with an impatient growl; "talk, talk, talk—that's all it ever comes to with your kind of cattle. Do you still think that you are playing at charades, girl? […] "

  4. 4.

    chattel

    可数 废旧 法律

    goods and cattle

  5. 5.

    Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.

    罕用 不可数

    If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.

v.
  1. 1.

    Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”).

    俚语 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

cows oxen kine

上位词 1

bovine

下位词 10

cow grade bull beef devon steer ox bullock Welsh Africander

部分词 3

beef calf boeuf

整体词 1

herd

相关短语

cattle car 运畜拖车 cattle call 爱情召唤（电影名） cattle station 养牛场 cattle grid 拦牛木栅 拦畜沟栅 cattle grids cattle drive 牛仔赶集 赶牛 cattle egret [网络] 牛背鹭；黄头鹭；牛鹭 cattle stations cattle cars cattle calls cattle dog cattle driver cattle beast cattle prod n. 牛刺；赶牛棒 cattle goad

词源

From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.

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