[N-COUNT 可数名词](宠物或牲畜的)种,品种 A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
...rare breeds of cattle...
稀有品种的牛
Certain breeds are more dangerous than others.
某些品种比其他品种更危险。
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[VERB 动词]See also:
cross-breed
;饲养;培育 If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way.
[V n]
[V n prep]
[be V-ed to-inf]
He lived alone, breeding horses and dogs...
他独自一人生活,饲养马匹和狗。
He used to breed dogs for the police...
他曾经为警方培育警犬。
These dogs are bred to fight.
这些狗被培育作斗犬。
breeding
There is potential for selective breeding for better yields.
选种培育以提高产量会大有可为。
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[VERB 动词](动物)繁殖,繁育 When animals breed, they have babies.
[V]
[V-ing]
Frogs will usually breed in any convenient pond...
通常青蛙会在任何条件适宜的池塘中繁殖。
The area now attracts over 60 species of breeding birds.
这一地区现在吸引了60多种鸟类到此繁育后代。
breeding
During the breeding season the birds come ashore.
在繁殖季节各种鸟都飞到岸边。
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[VERB 动词]产生;引起;酿成 If you say that something breeds bad feeling or bad behaviour, you mean that it causes bad feeling or bad behaviour to develop.
[V n]
If they are unemployed it's bound to breed resentment...
如果他们失去工作,一定会产生怨恨。
Violence breeds violence.
暴力会催生更多暴力。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]类型;种类 You can refer to someone or something as one of a particular breed of person or thing when you want to talk about what they are like.
[usu sing]
Sue is one of the new breed of British women squash players who are making a real impact...
休是英国新一代的女子壁球运动员,她们的影响正在显现出来。
The new breed of walking holidays puts the emphasis on enjoyment, not endurance...
这种新型的徒步旅行假日重在愉悦身心,而不是为了锻炼耐力。
I had found that rare breed of man who was not afraid of committing himself.
我找到了那种勇于承担责任的男人,这样的男人很少有。
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See also:
breeding
;
ill-bred
;
pure-bred
;
well-bred
;
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[PHRASE 短语](在某地)出生并长大 Someone who was born and bred in a place was born there and grew up there.
I was born and bred in the highlands...
我在高地地区出生和长大。
Born and bred in this country, he and his wife emigrated to Los Angeles after the war...
尽管生于斯长于斯,他和妻子在战后还是移民去了洛杉矶。
A Londoner born and bred, she suspected that a month in the country would bore her to distraction.
作为一个土生土长的伦敦人,她不相信在乡下呆一个月就会令她心烦意乱。
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familiarity breeds contempt→see:
familiarity
;
Oxford
breed★/briːd; NAmEbriːd/
verb
,
noun
breedbreedsbredbreedingverb★(bred,bred/bred; NAmEbred/)1★[intransitive ](of animals 动物)to have sex and produce young 交配繁殖◆Many animals breed only at certain times of the year.很多动物只在一年的某个时候交配繁殖。☞see also
interbreed
2★[transitive ]breedsth (for/as sth) to keep animals or plants in order to produce young ones in a controlled way 饲养,培育(动植物)◆The rabbits are bred for their long coats.饲养兔子是为了获取它们的长毛。☞collocationsat
farming
☞see also
cross-breed
,
pure-bred
,
thoroughbred
3[transitive ]breedsth to be the cause of sth 孕育;导致◆Nothing breeds success like success.一事成功万事亨通。4[transitive , usually passive ]breedsth into sb to educate sb in a particular way as they are growing up 以…方式教育;使养成◆Fear of failure was bred into him at an early age.他从小就养成了对失败的恐惧。☞see also
well bred
IDIOMsee
born
v.,
familiarity
noun★1★a particular type of animal that has been developed by people in a controlled way, especially a type of dog, cat or farm animal 品种(尤指人工培育的狗、猫或牲畜)◆Labradors and other large breeds of dog拉布拉多犬及其他大型品种狗◆a breed of cattle/sheep某个品种的牛/羊2[usually singular ]a type of person (人的)类型,种类◆He represents a new breed of politician.他代表着新一类的政治家。◆Players as skilful as this are a rare breed.如此有技巧的演奏者很少见。breed/briːd; NAmEbriːd/bred/bred; NAmEbred/
LDC
breed1 verb
breed2 noun
breedbreed1 /briːd/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle bred /bred/)
Word Origin
Verb Table
Examples
Thesaurus
Collocations
Phrases
1[intransitive] if animals breed, they mate in order to have babies: Eagles breed during the cooler months of the year.2[transitive] to keep animals or plants in order to produce babies or new plants, especially ones with particular qualities: These dogs were originally bred in Scotland to round up sheep. →
crossbreed1
, purebred
, thoroughbred
3[transitive] to cause a particular feeling or condition: Poor living conditions breed violence and despair.4[transitive] if a place, situation, or thing breeds a particular type of person, it produces that type: Society’s obsession with sex has bred a generation of unhappy children. →
well-bred
, → born and bred
at born1(3)
breed1 verb
breed2 noun
breedbreed2 ●●○ noun [countable]
Examples
Thesaurus
Collocations
Phrases
1a type of animal that is kept as a pet or on a farmbreed of Spaniels are my favourite breed of dog.2a particular kind of person or type of thing: Real cowboys are a dying breed (=not many exist anymore). Dodd was one of that rare breed (=there are not many of them) who could make the game of football look simple.breed ofa new breed of international criminal
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