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Swine Plural Eat Call Word Meaning N Count 可数名词

英语单词 swine
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] A swine is a pig. to cast pearls before swine→see:
    pearl
      [TECHNICAL or OLD-FASHIONED 术语或过时]
    • ...imports of live swine from Canada.

      从加拿大进口的活猪

    • ...pigs with swine fever.

      患猪瘟的猪

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