lamb

B1 CET-4 初中 FREQ #4102 ★★☆☆☆

n. 小羊, 羔羊 v. 产羊羔

发音

US /læm/

词形变化

lambren lambs 复数 lambs lamber 复数 lambren 复数 lambed lambing lambs 三单 lambing 现在分词 lambed 过去式 lambed 过去分词

别名

Lamb lambe

教材释义与例句

名词

羔羊，小羊；羔羊肉

a young sheep

动词

生小羊，产羔羊

to give birth to lambs

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A young sheep.

    羊羔

    羔

    羔羊

    可数 不可数

    Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.

  2. 2.

    A young goat; a kid.

    可数 废旧 不可数

    The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”

  3. 3.

    The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.

    羊肉

    不可数 可数
  4. 4.

    A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.

    羔羊

    可数 比喻 不可数

    Near-synonym: sheep

  5. 5.

    Lambskin.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    A simple, unsophisticated person.

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

    可数 俚语 不可数 商务 金融
  8. 8.

    A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

    可数 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    Of a sheep, to give birth.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To assist (sheep) to give birth.

    不及物 及物

    The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dear

上位词 4

victim innocent meat dupe

下位词 7

hog hogg baa-lamb hogget lambkin Persian lamb teg

整体词 1

domestic sheep
动词

上位词 5

have bear birth deliver give birth

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

来源：wiktionary