cattle是什么意思？

cattle

英[ˈkætl] 美[ˈkætl]

• n. （总称）牛，牲口，畜生，无价值的人，〈美俚〉女学生；

复数：cattle;

例句

• The whole shipment of cattle made the grade as prime beef. 这批牛全部达到了上等牛肉的标准。
• The cattle stampeded. 牛群四处奔窜。
• He took care to keep the cattle from falling off. 他精心照料着牛群, 不使它们瘦下来。
• Cattle had trodden a path to the pond. 牛踩出了一条通向池塘的路。
• The boy got up very early every morning to pasture cattle. 这男孩每天起得很早去放牛。
• Most farms have a pond from which cattle can drink. 大部分农场有池塘供牛喝水。
• a French breed of cattle that has been exported widely 已广泛出口的法国牛种
• I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle. 我不忍看他们宰牛。
• intensively reared beef cattle 集约式饲养的肉牛
• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness. 她赶着牛群穿过荒野。

同义词

• n.
  cattle的同义词之：暴民,社会渣滓
  scum, dregs, riffraff, canaille, rout,
  cattle的同义词之：牛的总称
  livestock, cows, domestic, stock, bulls, steers, animals,

英语六级真题

He planted soybeans (大豆）sold as cattle feed.
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He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
It's called that because in the old days, people let their cattle stray on the area, which was common land.
出自-2012年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. 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"- Bible"a team of oxen"