cub
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Animals, Organizations
cub /kʌb/ ●●○ noun [countableC] 1 
HBAthe baby of a wild animal such as a lion or a bear 〔狮、熊等的〕幼兽
HBAthe baby of a wild animal such as a lion or a bear 〔狮、熊等的〕幼兽 a five-month-old lion cub
五个月大的幼狮
a tiger and her cubs
一只老虎和它的幼崽
2. the Cubs the Cub Scout organization 幼年童子军
Examples from the Corpus
the Cubs• The aim is to disperse the cubs.• After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick.• Three weeks after the birth Harriet decided to move the cubs into the jungle.• Luckily Billy saw Harriet leave, carrying the second of the cubs, and followed her at a distance.• He's too proud to give in to the Cubs.• How well the Cubs do depends on their pitching.• Yesterday the Cubs scored eight in the third.
3. SSOa member of the Cub Scout organization 幼年童子军成员
→ cub reporterExamples from the Corpus
cub• The most recent estimates suggest that Britain has a population of about 250,000 adult badgers and 105,000 cubs.• We saw her bury her cubs.• I have known a fox earth populated with a family of cubs while small rabbits were running around on the surface nearby.• a seal cub• There inside the den was the first of the cubs.• The older bears will teach the cub how bears are supposed to behave in the wild.• The cubs, all between three and seven weeks old, have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks.• Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.• You know, wash a car with one hand and feed a bottle to a tiger cub with the other.• It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle.