英语单词 | bull |
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英美音标 | 英 [bʊl] 美 [bʊl] |
中文释义 | n.公牛;股市看涨的人;<俚>警察 n.荒谬的话 n.教皇诏书 adj.公牛的;鲁莽的 |
英语例句 | (1) The bull bellowed angrily. (2) His bull will come to serve our cows tomorrow. (3) A bull market is a situation in which share prices are rising. (4) Don't listen to his cock and bull story. (5) Get along with you. It's a cock and bull story. (6) The pope issued a bull declaring that abortion was not approved by the church. (7) Still another depicted Europa deceived by Jupiter under the disguise of a bull. (8) A slow exposure blurs the charge of a bull at a bullfight in Arequipa, Peru. (9) He is a bull man. |
中文例句 | (1) 公牛怒吼起来。 (2) 明天我们用他的公牛与我们的母牛配种。 (3) 牛市是指股价不断攀升的行情。 (4) 别听他那荒诞的故事。 (5) 去你的, 这是无稽之谈。 (6) 教皇发布训令,宣布堕胎不被教堂认可。 (7) 再一幅是描写欧罗巴尼如何被化身成公牛的朱庇特所欺骗。 (8) 在秘鲁阿雷基帕一场斗牛赛中,相机的缓速曝光将这张公牛的攻击姿势拍得模糊不清。 (9) 他是个鲁莽的人。 |
vocabulary简明 | A bull is a male cow. You can usually tell which animal in a pasture is a bull by its large size and horns. |
vocabulary扩展 | A male bovine — or cow — is a bull, and so is a male whale or elephant. Fittingly, the word bull is sometimes also used for a particularly bulky, muscular man. Another informal and slightly obscene meaning is "ridiculous," or "not true," as when you tell a lie and your brother rudely replies, "Bull!" This slang meaning has its roots in the Old French bole, "deception or trick." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]公牛 A bull is a male animal of the cow family. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]雄兽;雄性动物 Some other male animals, including elephants and whales, are called bulls .
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词](预期股价上涨而买进股票以期不久可高价卖出获利的)买空者,多头 On the stock market, bulls are people who buy shares in expectation of a price rise, in order to make a profit by selling the shares again after a short time. [BUSINESS 商] 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]教皇诏书;教皇训谕 In the Roman Catholic church, a papal bull is an official statement on a particular subject that is issued by the Pope. 5 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]胡说;废话 If you say that something is bull or a load of bull, you mean that it is complete nonsense or absolutely untrue. [INFORMAL 非正式]
6 See also:cock-and-bull story ;pit bull terrier ; 7 [PHRASE 短语]像闯进瓷器店的公牛一样;莽撞冒失 If you say that someone rushes into a situation like a bull in a china shop, you are critical of them because they do not stop to think, and are insensitive to other people's feelings. [usu [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式]
8 [PHRASE 短语]好像公牛进了瓷器店;笨手笨脚 You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy. [usu 9 [PHRASE 短语]勇敢面对危险(或困境) If you take the bull by the horns, you do something that you feel you ought to do even though it is difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant. [V inflects]
10 like a red rag to a bull→see: rag ; |
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