| 英语单词 | cub |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [kʌb] 美 [kʌb] |
| 中文释义 | n.幼兽;年轻人 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. (2) A cub takes a playful bite of a relative's swishing tail in the African plains. (3) The cub was wet behind the ears. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。 (2) 在非洲平原一个幼兽正咬着它的家族成员的漂亮尾巴玩耍。 (3) 这个年轻人还幼稚无知呢。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A cub is a baby animal. A mother fox sometimes carries her cub by the scruff of its neck. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Use the word cub when you talk about one of a number of meat-eating mammal babies, including bears, foxes, lions, and tigers. While a tiny bear cub looks as adorable and helpless as a stuffed animal, its mother is ferocious and protective of her cubs. In the old days, people also called a young, immature boy a cub — today, a human cub is more likely to be a junior Boy Scout — a Cub Scout. |
| 柯林斯解释 | The spelling Cub is also used for meanings 2, 3, and 4. 拼写 Cub 亦用于义项 2,3,4。 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](狮、狼、熊等的)幼兽,崽 A cub is a young wild animal such as a lion, wolf, or bear. [oft n N]
2 [N-PROPER-COLL 专有集合名词]幼童军(8至10岁的男孩组成的一支童子军) The Cubs or the Cub Scouts is a version of the Scouts for boys between the ages of eight and ten. [ 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]幼童军成员 A cub or a cub scout is a boy who is a member of the Cubs. 4 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]幼童军会议 Cubs is a meeting of the Cubs. [usu prep N]
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