请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 goatherd
释义

Definition of goatherd in English:

goatherd

noun ˈɡəʊthəːdˈɡoʊtˌhərd
  • A person who tends goats.

    羊倌,牧羊人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is ladanum gum, which the goatherds pluck from their charges.
    • A goatherd has been arrested, so his goats roam untended; a man has been brought in, bruised and handcuffed, for asking an American patrol for help for his wounded daughter.
    • There he was raised by animals and discovered by a goatherd.
    • Eugenio (the goatherd telling the story) and Amselmo (not the character from the short story) are both seeking her hand in marriage and are both considered suitable.
    • My favorite starts with Gregorio, a former goatherd who, at the age of 50, moved to Texas, got fake papers and traveled around the country doing a wide variety of migrant labor jobs.
    • An enormous sound system is erected on a basketball court behind the town hall, and grandmothers, soccer hooligans, priests, and goatherds dance in the open air until early morning.
    • I quite fancy the life of a goatherd in the Tajik hills, playing music on a bucket with spoons and wearing those cool trousers while dancing round a campfire toasting small woodland creatures.
    • He went on to paint Dutch scenes as if they were further topographical reveries in an Italian landscape, although with cowmen instead of goatherds among the weirs and ivy-dripping ruins, as in The Ford.
    • The woman who appears to be the goatherd says to them ‘Where are you going?’
    • Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
    • The cathedral priest invites the goatherd to join them and comments that since the goat is a female she can't control her natural instincts.
    • Sons of former U.S. presidents are more likely to become President of the United States than humble goatherds.
    • The goatherd helps the suitors get weapons, but the other herders stop him.
    • Then Kriti met a goatherd whistling and hooting at his bleating goats.
    • He hoped to work the Write With A Quill Pen Exhibit, but as a part-time goatherd, he was deemed better suited for fence-post work.
    • So, you say that you were a goatherd working in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1970's?
    • After the madman leaves, Sancho tries to blame the goatherd for what happened, saying he should have warned them of the man's violent temper (even though the goatherd had warned them).
    • Instead of the bloody duels of epic, the new model of competition is the agonistic singing of the goatherds.
    • Knight and squire crossed paths with a variety of rural characters - goatherds, galley slaves, innkeepers, and others - all of whom had rambling stories to tell.
    • We have a couple of Uzbeki goatherds waiting on nearby hills to relay the message back to London.

Origin

Old English, from goat + obsolete herd 'herdsman'.

Definition of goatherd in US English:

goatherd

nounˈɡōtˌhərdˈɡoʊtˌhərd
  • A person who tends goats.

    羊倌,牧羊人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He went on to paint Dutch scenes as if they were further topographical reveries in an Italian landscape, although with cowmen instead of goatherds among the weirs and ivy-dripping ruins, as in The Ford.
    • Around the year 850 in southern Abyssinia, a young goatherd named Khaldi noticed that his goats were particularly frisky and frolicsome when he brought them home in the evening.
    • This is ladanum gum, which the goatherds pluck from their charges.
    • The goatherd helps the suitors get weapons, but the other herders stop him.
    • I quite fancy the life of a goatherd in the Tajik hills, playing music on a bucket with spoons and wearing those cool trousers while dancing round a campfire toasting small woodland creatures.
    • So, you say that you were a goatherd working in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1970's?
    • The cathedral priest invites the goatherd to join them and comments that since the goat is a female she can't control her natural instincts.
    • Sons of former U.S. presidents are more likely to become President of the United States than humble goatherds.
    • There he was raised by animals and discovered by a goatherd.
    • Instead of the bloody duels of epic, the new model of competition is the agonistic singing of the goatherds.
    • Eugenio (the goatherd telling the story) and Amselmo (not the character from the short story) are both seeking her hand in marriage and are both considered suitable.
    • He hoped to work the Write With A Quill Pen Exhibit, but as a part-time goatherd, he was deemed better suited for fence-post work.
    • A goatherd has been arrested, so his goats roam untended; a man has been brought in, bruised and handcuffed, for asking an American patrol for help for his wounded daughter.
    • The woman who appears to be the goatherd says to them ‘Where are you going?’
    • After the madman leaves, Sancho tries to blame the goatherd for what happened, saying he should have warned them of the man's violent temper (even though the goatherd had warned them).
    • Knight and squire crossed paths with a variety of rural characters - goatherds, galley slaves, innkeepers, and others - all of whom had rambling stories to tell.
    • An enormous sound system is erected on a basketball court behind the town hall, and grandmothers, soccer hooligans, priests, and goatherds dance in the open air until early morning.
    • Then Kriti met a goatherd whistling and hooting at his bleating goats.
    • My favorite starts with Gregorio, a former goatherd who, at the age of 50, moved to Texas, got fake papers and traveled around the country doing a wide variety of migrant labor jobs.
    • We have a couple of Uzbeki goatherds waiting on nearby hills to relay the message back to London.

Origin

Old English, from goat + obsolete herd ‘herdsman’.

随便看

 

英汉双解词典包含464360条英汉词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 7:27:47