cattle是什么意思_cattle怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age;"so many head of cattle"
"wait till the cows come home"
"seven thin and ill-favored kine"
"a team of oxen"

中英词源

cattle 菜牛

来自capital, 资产，资本，因牛在农耕社会有着无比重要的作用而引申此词义。比较castor，海狸。

cattle: cattle: [13] Ultimately, cattle is the same word as chattel [13], and when it first entered English it had the same meaning, ‘property’. From earliest times, however, it was applied specifically to livestock thought of as property. In the Middle Ages it was a wide-ranging term in animal husbandry, being used for horses, sheep, pigs, and even poultry and bees, as well as cows, and such usages survived dialectally until comparatively recently, but from the mid 16th century onwards there is increasing evidence of the word’s being restricted solely to cows.

Its ultimate source is medieval Latin capitāle ‘property’, which came to English via Old French chatel as chattel and via Anglo-Norman catel as cattle. Capitāle itself goes back to classical Latin capitālis (from caput ‘head’), from which English gets capital.
=> capital, chattel
cattle (n.): mid-13c., "property," from Anglo-French catel "property" (Old North French catel, Old French chatel), from Medieval Latin capitale "property, stock," noun use of neuter of Latin adjective capitalis "principal, chief" (see capital (n.1)). Compare sense development of fee, pecuniary. Sense originally was of movable property, especially livestock; it began to be limited to "cows and bulls" from late 16c.

词态变化

复数 cattle;

权威造句

1. The old stone cattle trough still sits by the main entrance.: 陈旧的石制牛食槽仍然放在大门口。

2. Outside, two old boys lingered on the street corner discussing cattle.: 两个老头儿在外面街角迟迟不走，聊着牛的事情。

3. Cowboys drove covered wagons and rode horses, lassoing cattle.: 牛仔们有的赶着大篷车，有的骑着马，抛套索捕牛。

4. He had sought work as a cowboy, rounding up cattle.: 他找了一份放牛的差事，负责把牛赶到一起。

5. I run a cattle station some miles up-country.: 我在北边几英里开外的地方有一个养牛场。

近反义词

cows 奶牛

livestock 家畜

stock 存货

rout 彻底溃败

dregs 渣滓

canaille 暴民

riffraff <贬>乌合之众...

scum 槽粕

bulls 动词bull的第三人称单...

steers 动词steer的第三人称...

oxen 牛

domestic animals 家畜

steer 操纵

domestic 家庭的

kine <古>母牛

Bos taurus [医] 牛

creature 生物

brute 畜生

animal 动物

beast 兽

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相似短语

cattle clipper 剪牛毛机

dwarf cattle 矮个牛

feeder cattle 肥育母牛，架子牛

milch cattle 奶牛

meat cattle 肉用牛，菜牛

slaughter cattle 供屠牛

cattle grade 家畜等级标准

cattle grid n. （铺在公路坑洞之上的）拦牛木栅（车可通过家畜不可过）

cattle manifest 牲畜运载单

cattle market 【英】1.牛市场
2.【贬】女性展示其魅力的场所(如选美比赛)

单词分析

这些名词均含“动物”之意。
animal普通用词，指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。
beast指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。
creature通常指生物或动物，与非生动相对。指人时，则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。
brute特指野兽。用于人时，突出其野蛮或残忍。
cattle指大牲畜，尤其指牛。

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