cows and bulls that are kept as farm animals for their milk or meat 牛 a herd of cattle 一群牛 twenty head of cattle (= twenty cows) 二十頭牛 dairy/beef cattle 乳牛;菜牛 The prisoners were herded into trucks like cattle. 囚犯像牛一樣被趕進卡車。
Collocations FarmingFarming 農場經營 Growing food and raising animals 種植糧食和飼養動物 - plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
植樹;播種;種莊稼;種植葡萄樹;種大麥 - grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
種植/生産玉米/小麥/大米/水果 - plough/(North American English) plow land/a field
耕地;犁田 - sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
播種/收獲谷粒/農作物/莊稼 - spread manure/fertilizer on something
給…施撒糞肥/肥料 - cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
耕作/灌溉/澆灌/污染莊稼/植物/田地/土地 - damage/destroy/lose your crop
損害/毀壞/損失農作物 - ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
催熟/采摘水果/漿果/葡萄 - press/dry/ferment grapes
壓榨/晾幹/發酵葡萄 - grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
磨/打谷物/玉米/小麥 - raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
飼養雞/家禽/牛/豬 - raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
飼養/喂養/放養家畜/牛/羊 - kill/slaughter livestock
屠宰家畜 - preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
防腐保存/熏/加工貯藏/用鹽腌制肉
Modern farming 現代農場經營 - run a fish farm/an organic dairy farm
- engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
從事集約型(生豬/漁業)養殖 - use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
使用(化學/有機)肥料/殺蟲劑 - begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
開始/進行轉基因作物的田間試驗 - grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
種植/研發轉基因作物/種子/植物/糧食 - fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
資助/投資基因工程/研究 - improve/increase crop yields
提高/增加糧食産量 - face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
面臨/遭受/緩解食物短缺 - label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
給含有轉基因生物的食品貼標簽 - eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
取消/減少農業補貼 - oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
反對工廠化養殖/轉基因食品 - promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming
促進/鼓勵/支持有機/可持續農耕
Extra ExamplesTopics Animalsc1Cattle that stray onto the electric railway line are killed instantly. 走失到電氣鐵路軌道上去的牛立刻給殺死了。 Cattle were first domesticated in Neolithic times. 新石器時代有人開始馴養牛。 Farmers drove cattle along major roads as a protest against high taxes. 農民沿着大路趕牛示威,反對重稅。 He moved his cattle farther down into the valley in winter. 冬天他把牛趕到山谷中更遠的地方。 Villagers traditionally have the right to graze their cattle on the common land. 按慣例村民可以在公用地上放牛。 cattle grazing in the fields 正在牧場吃草的牛 Electric cattle prods were used against the demonstrators. 當局用趕牛電棒來對付示威者。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- beef
- dairy
- Highland
- …
- head
- herd
- keep
- raise
- rear
- …
- graze
- auction
- market
- breeding
- …
- a breed of cattle
Word OriginMiddle English (also denoting personal property or wealth): from Anglo-Norman French catel, variant of Old French chatel, from medieval Latin capitale, from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.