cattle

英 [ˈkætl]

美 [ˈkætl]

n.  牛

复数：cattle　

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Collins.2 / BNC.2973 / COCA.3629

牛津词典

noun

• 牛
  cows and bulls that are kept as farm animals for their milk or meat
  1. a herd of cattle
     一群牛
  2. twenty head of cattle (= twenty cows)
     二十头牛
  3. dairy/beef cattle
     乳 / 肉牛

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 牛
  Cattleare cows and bulls.
  1. ...the finest herd of beef cattle for two hundred miles.
     方圆两百英里内最好的肉用牛群

双语例句

• They keep horses and cattle, the former for riding, the latter for food.
  他们养马和牛，前者供骑乘，后者供食用。
• The cattle disease occurs more or less anywhere in Africa where the fly occurs
  在非洲凡是有这种蝇虫的地方，几乎都会出现这一牛病。
• The cattle had trodden a path to the pond.
  牛群踏出了一条通往池塘的小径。
• He feeds oats to his cattle.
  他给牛喂燕麦。
• Someone ran the cattle off during the night.
  有人在夜里偷走了牛。
• The cattle broke into the wheat fields and did much damage.
  牛群闯进了麦田，毁坏了不少庄稼。
• We have branded our cattle.
  我们已经给我们的牛打上了烙印。
• Marry that fat son of a fat cattle dealer? She would die first!
  嫁给那个大腹便便的牛贩子的胖儿子？她宁愿去死！
• 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。
• Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
  乡间强盗正在学习早期西部人的做法，先让牛群受惊四处乱窜以转移农民的注意力，然后再洗劫他们的房屋。