- 词义辨析
cow, ox
这两个词都可表示“牛”。它们的区别是:
cow指母牛,尤指供产奶的乳牛; ox是牛的通称,尤指公牛或阉过的公牛。例如:
He raises cows to sell fresh milk.
他为了卖鲜奶而养奶牛。
He is as strong as an ox.
他体壮如牛。
ox,bull,cow,buffalo
这些名词均有“牛”之意。
ox泛指野生或驯养的牛类,系动物学的用词,通称,也指公牛。
bull指未经阉割,通常用于配种的公牛,也指西班牙或美洲经专门饲养用作斗牛表演的公牛,引申指彪形大汉。
cow指任何品种的成年母牛或乳用的乳牛。
buffalo指水牛,在美国指野牛。
- 近义词
- 反义词
- 双语例句 更多例句
He is not the kind of child who is likely to be cowed into submission.
他并不是那种吓一吓就可能就范的孩子.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
One of the men sipped from a glass of water, looking wary but not cowed.
其中一个人吸了瓶子里装的水, 看起来机警而不懦弱.
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Annixter had cursed him so vociferously and tersely that even Osterman was cowed.
安尼克斯特骂了他的声音之大,语气之凶,连奥斯特曼也不禁吓了一跳.
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Poetry, like schoolboys, by too frequent and severe corrections , may be cowed into Dullness.
诗苟多改痛改, 犹学童常遭塾师扑责, 积威之下,易成钝儿.
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If anything, people today are more cowed by celebrityhood and stardom than they've ever been before.
如果有什么区别的话, 就是今天的人们更容易被上流名人及明星们所唬弄.
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By this time she was so cowed by the beatings that she meekly obeyed.
这时她已经被打怕了,只得言听计从。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
She raised her eyes dully when the doctor came in. She was cowed and broken.
医生进去时,她呆呆地抬起了头. 她垂头丧气,毫无劲头.
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But you could just as easily argue that their are incurious because they're cowed.
但你也能很轻易地反驳说,他们不感兴趣只是因为他们被吓到了.
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The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
该政府丝毫没有被这些威胁吓住,发誓要继续执行其政策。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
- 相关词组
- Don't have a cow别大惊小怪;别发火
- armoured cow<美>罐装炼乳;
- sacred cown.(印度教等的)圣牛,<口>不可批语评的人(或思想,组织事物等),不可更改的文稿;
- Mad cow diseasen.狂牛病,牛绵状脑病;
- dairy cown.乳牛,奶牛;
- cow someone into submission用恐吓手段使某人屈服
- have a cow(非正式) 发飙;生气;激动;焦虑;
- cash cown.摇钱树;可使人致富的生财工具;
- milk a cow挤牛奶;
- cow townn.养牛区中的小镇(用作牛市场的市镇);
- Santa Gertudis cow[医]圣塔格鲁特迪斯牛;
- cow pea[医]豇豆;
- cow milk牛乳;
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