英语单词 | swine |
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英美音标 | 英 [swaɪn] 美 [swaɪn] |
中文释义 | n.猪;令人不快的人或事 |
英语例句 | (1) A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane. (2) She lived in that gloomy tenement, a place not fit for swine. (3) Take your hands off me, you filthy swine! (4) He's an arrogant little swine! |
中文例句 | (1) 猪因壮死(象以齿焚)。 (2) 她就住在那幢阴暗的,连猪圈都不如的公寓里。 (3) 把你的手放开,别碰我,你这个坏蛋! (4) 他是个傲慢的小讨厌鬼! |
vocabulary简明 | A swine is a pig or a big ol’ nasty hog. Swine have short legs, thick bodies, and they eat just about anything. If someone acts like a pig, call him a swine. |
vocabulary扩展 | Although it’s old fashioned, the word swine comes in handy if you need another word for hog, like if you’re really into writing poems about pigs. Swine — which is also the plural form, like fish — are common farm animals. Some are eaten as bacon, some are kept as pets. Swine themselves are omnivorous, so they'll eat meat, vegetables, or, well, garbage. |
柯林斯解释 | The form swines is used as the plural for meaning 1; swine is used as both the singular and plural for meaning 2. swines 用作义项 1 的复数形式; swine 用于义项 2 时单复数同形。 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]讨厌鬼;猪猡;下流坯 If you call someone a swine, you dislike them or think that they are a bad person, usually because they have behaved unpleasantly towards you. [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式] 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]猪 A swine is a pig. to cast pearls before swine→see: pearl ; [TECHNICAL or OLD-FASHIONED 术语或过时]
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