英汉词典

sheep 基本解释

• n. 羊，绵羊；胆小鬼

sheep 词态变化

sheep 中文词源

来自古英语 sceap,羊，绵羊，来自 West Germanic*skaepan,羊，绵羊，进一步词源不详。

sheep 英文词源

sheep

sheep: [OE] Sheep is a West Germanic word, with relatives in German schaf and Dutch schaap. It is not known where it came from, although it has been speculated that it may be related to German schaffen ‘make, create’ (and hence to English shape), and that its underlying meaning is hence ‘creature’. The derivative sheepish [12] originally meant simply ‘sheeplike’. It had a variety of metaphorical applications in Middle English, including ‘silly’ and ‘fearful’, but the modern ‘shy’ did not emerge until the late 17th century. Shepherd is of course based on sheep.

sheep (n.)

ruminant mammal, Old English sceap, scep, from West Germanic *skæpan (cognates: Old Saxon scap, Old Frisian skep, Middle Low German schap, Middle Dutch scaep, Dutch schaap, Old High German scaf, German Schaf), of unknown origin. Not found in Scandinavian (Danish has faar for "sheep") or Gothic (which uses lamb), and with no known cognates outside Germanic. The more usual Indo-European word for the animal is represented in English by ewe.

The plural form was leveled with the singular in Old English, but Old Northumbrian had a plural scipo. Used since Old English as a type of timidity and figuratively of those under the guidance of God. The meaning "stupid, timid person" is attested from 1540s. The image of the wolf in sheep's clothing was in Old English (from Matt. vii:15); that of separating the sheep from the goats is from Matt. xxv:33. To count sheep in a bid to induce sleep is recorded from 1854 but seems not to have been commonly written about until 1870s. It might simply be a type of a tedious activity, but an account of shepherd life from Australia from 1849 ["Sidney's Emigrant's Journal"] describes the night-shepherd ("hut-keeper") taking a count of the sheep regularly at the end of his shift to protect against being answerable for any animals later lost or killed.

Sheep's eyes "loving looks" is attested from 1520s (compare West Frisian skiepseach, Dutch schaapsoog, German Schafsauge). A sheep-biter was "a dog that worries sheep" (1540s); "a mutton-monger" (1590s); and "a whore-monger" (1610s, i.e. one who "chases mutton"); hence Shakespeare's sheep-biting "thieving, sneaky."

sheep 词组搭配

sheep 英文释义

1. woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

2. a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

3. a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision;

"his students followed him like sheep"

sheep 双语例句

1. She mispronounced ship as sheep.

她把ship念成sheep了.

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2. 'ship " doesn't rhyme with'sheep ".

Ship 和 sheep 不押韵.

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3. The first task was to fence the wood to exclude sheep.

第一项任务就是把树林围起来不让羊进去。

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4. Every summer the shepherds drive the sheep up to pasture.

每年夏天牧羊人都将羊群赶到牧场去。

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5. Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.

绵羊奶和山羊奶的生产过程差不多。

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sheep 实用场景例句

a flock of sheep

一群羊

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Sheep were grazing in the fields.

羊在野地里吃草。

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...grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing.

有一群羊正在吃草的草场

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After sending you that letter I recollected how stupid I was.

给你的那封信寄出之后,我才想起我有多么的愚蠢.

辞典例句

The farmer is shearing his sheep.

那农夫正在给他的羊剪毛.

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The boy was driving the sheep down the hill.

这个男孩正把羊赶下山.

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The sheep had cropped the grass short.

羊把草吃剩得很短.

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They discovered that they could shear sheep, take the wool, weave it and fashion the material into warm coats and suits,.

他们发现他们能够剪羊毛 、 纺绒线、织成毛料, 然后把毛料做成暖和的衣服.

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Let's dip the sheep.

咱们用消毒水洗羊.

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The shepherd boy waited for his sheep to drink.

牧童等羊喝水.

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It makes her furious to see a good breed of sheep being treated cruelly.

看到品种优良的羊受到残忍的对待,她非常气愤.

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The sheep got into the field through a gap in the hedge.

羊群从树篱的缺口跑向田野.

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She mispronounced ship as sheep.

她把ship念成sheep了.

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Thieves carried off the farmer's sheep during the night.

晚上,小偷把农民的羊掠走了.

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He's always been regarded as the black sheep of the family.

他总是被看成是这个家庭的不肖之子.

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The sheep were huddled together in a ditch.

羊群被赶到一条沟里挤在一起.

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The sheep fattened up quickly.

羊很快就上膘了.

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They killed a sheep as a sacrifice.

他们宰了一只羊作为祭品.

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Adversity shows what men really are and separates the sheep from the goats.

患难可以看清人的本质,分清好人还是坏人.

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Wolves worry the sheep.

狼群撕咬绵羊.

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A few sheep have been lost from the flock.

羊群里少了几只羊.

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We fenced in the garden to keep the sheep out.

我们用栅栏把花园围起来以不让羊进入.

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Hundreds of sheep perished that year because of drought.

那年由于干旱,几百头羊突然死去.

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After a summer here the poorest sheep and cattle grow strong and fat.

经过一个夏天,连最差的牛羊在这里也长得又肥又壮了.

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They will lose at the worst only fifteen sheep.

在最糟的情况下,他们也不过损失15只羊.

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A Judas goat led sheep into the abattoir.

一只带路的山羊把绵羊引到屠宰场去了.

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a hardy breed of sheep

适应力强的绵羊品种

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