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[N-SING 单数名词](建筑物或车辆的)后部,后面,背面 The
rear of something such as a building or vehicle is the back part of it.
He settled back in the rear of the taxi.
他靠坐在出租车的后排座上。
...a stairway in the rear of the building.
大楼后面的楼梯
Rear is also an adjective.2
[N-SING 单数名词](队列的)尾部,最后一个 If you are at the
rear of a moving line of people, you are the last person in it.
Musicians played at the front and rear of the procession...
乐师们在队前和队尾表演。
The Lord Mayor follows at the rear in his gilded coach.
市长大人坐在他阔气的马车里在后面跟着。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]臀部;屁股 Your
rear is the part of your body that you sit on.
[usu poss N]
[INFORMAL 非正式]
I turned away from the phone to see Lewis pat a waitress on her rear.
我打完电话后转过头,看见刘易斯拍了拍一个女招待的屁股。
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[VERB 动词]抚养;养育;养大 If you
rear children, you look after them until they are old enough to look after themselves.
She reared sixteen children, six her own and ten her husband's...
她养大了16个孩子,其中6个是她亲生的,10个是她丈夫带来的。
I was reared in east Texas.
我在得克萨斯州东部长大。
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[VERB 动词]饲养(小动物) If you
rear a young animal, you keep and look after it until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself.
She spends a lot of time rearing animals.
她花费大量时间饲养动物。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 raise
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[VERB 动词](马)用后腿直立,暴跳 When a horse
rears, it moves the front part of its body upwards, so that its front legs are high in the air and it is standing on its back legs.
The horse reared and threw off its rider.
那匹马前蹄腾空向后仰,把骑手摔了下去。
Rear up means the same as rear .rear up 同 rear