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herd AHD[hûrd] D.J.[hɜːd]K.K.[hɝd]n.(名词)- A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.牧群:为了某种特定目的而养在一起的牛群或其他同种家养动物群
- A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group:兽群:作为一组放在一起的许多只某种野生动物:a herd of elephants.See Synonyms at flock 1一群大象 参见 flock1
- A large number of people; a crowd:一群:许多人;一群人:a herd of stranded passengers.一群处于困境的旅客
- The multitude of common people regarded as a mass:民众:被看作群众的许多普通人:"It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow"(Henry David Thoreau)“是奢侈和放荡的人制造了民众孜孜不倦地追求的时尚”(亨利·戴维·梭罗)
v.(动词)herd.ed, herd.ing, herds v.intr.(不及物动词)- To come together in a herd:聚在一起:聚成一群:The sheep herded for warmth.羊聚成一群以取暖
v.tr.(及物动词)- To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.使…集在一起,把…赶在一起:召集、看守、驱赶(动物)使之成为一群
- To tend (sheep or cattle).牧放(羊群或牛群):使入群
- To gather and place into a group or mass:使成群:召集或把…放入一组或一群:herded the children into the auditorium.使孩子成群地进入礼堂
- Middle English 中古英语
- from Old English heord 源自 古英语 heord
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