herds

英 [hɜːdz]

美 [hɜːrdz]

n.  兽群; 牧群; 人群; 芸芸众生
v.  (使)向…移动; 牧放(牲畜、兽群)
herd的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 兽群;畜群
  Aherdis a large group of animals of one kind that live together.
  1. ...large herds of elephant and buffalo.
     大群的大象和水牛
  2. ...dairy herds.
     奶牛群
• N-SING （缺乏独立思想的）一般民众，芸芸众生
  If you say that someone has joinedthe herdor followsthe herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves.
  1. They are individuals; they will not follow the herd.
     他们是独立的个体，不愿随大溜。
• VERB 使集在一起;把…赶在一起
  If youherdpeople somewhere, you make them move there in a group.
  1. He began to herd the prisoners out...
     他开始将犯人集中在一起赶出来。
  2. The group was herded into a bus.
     这群人被赶上了一辆公共汽车。
• VERB 驱赶，牧放（畜群）
  If youherdanimals, you make them move along as a group.
  1. Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep...
     斯特凡诺骑一辆摩托车放羊。
  2. A boy herded half a dozen camels down towards the water trough.
     一个男孩赶着6头骆驼朝饮水槽走去。

双语例句

• He advised them to take the herds up into the mountain forest, far from the dangerous farm lands.
  他建议他们把鹿群带到山上的森林里去，远离危险的农庄田地。
• Herds are fattening on the early clover.
  家畜吃早春的苜蓿而上膘。
• Lions and tigers and wolves will also come along, as without predators your wild herds would soon create a population problem.
  狮子老虎和狼也会跟着来，因为没有了捕猎者你们的野外牧群很快会有数量问题。
• Later he made away with whole herds.
  后来他赶着整群的羊跑掉了。
• As Asian elephant herds dwindle, African elephants have become the only source of ivory.
  随着亚洲象群日渐减少，非洲大象成了象牙的唯一来源。
• Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture.
  每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
• And we are like small buffalo herds who have scattered.
  而我们则像离了群的一小支野牛群。
• I recently met with the Maasai people, an indigenous ethnic group who rely on their herds – mostly of cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys – for their food and for their income.
  最近我遇见一些Maasai人，他们是生活于肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的土着少数民族，以牧养牛、羊、山羊和驴子为生，这些牲畜就是他们的食物和收入来源。
• They live in small herds and feed with ostriches and other animals.
  它们成小群地生活在一起，与鸵鸟和其他动物一块儿进食。
• To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
  为了需要他的鞋带，他投机在畜牧之中。