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noun bʌkbək 1The male of some horned animals, especially the fallow deer, roe deer, reindeer, and antelopes. 雄性有角动物（尤指雄性扁角鹿、狍、驯鹿和羚羊）。比较DOE Example sentencesExamples - They require no hanging, and the meat is pale and tender; that of does is considered better than that of bucks (males).
- Just about 15 minutes ago, we're told a white deer - a white buck - was tranquilized and is now being brought for medical treatment.
- They'd seen three roe deer in the woods, a hind and two bucks, moving ‘silent and in slow motion through the snow’.
- They had red skin, and small horns like a buck's newly sprouting antlers.
- In a year as magical as this one, impressive bucks are scattered throughout the state, but those animals won't be easy to see just now.
- I saw a beautiful dark-horned buck standing with a doe on a sun-splashed, frost-sparkled flat near the edge of a canyon.
- Herein, we consider two main hypotheses to assess the possible function of the post-copulatory vocalization of fallow bucks.
- Add a host of maturing bucks from a bumper fawn crop six years ago and the potential for trophy-class deer is excellent.
- On the drive back to Shelby a big buck deer jumped across the road only a few yards in front of us.
- When, freezing and exhausted, he finally felt land beneath his limbs, the buck collapsed.
- In central Iowa, purebred bucks and does cost $500 or more per animal.
- Some places base the cost of a deer hunt on the size of a buck's antlers - the bigger the antlers, the more the hunt costs.
- Hunters selectively cull the does to make more forage available for the bucks.
- Growth of an organ, such as a buck's antlers, requires additional nourishment and that means additional blood flow.
- Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks.
- Outdoors enthusiasts who can ignore the season's monster bucks and swarming quail will find excellent largemouth bass action.
- And it has particularly infuriated park managers because the owner of an Alsatian watched as her dog chased the buck and then fled the scene while the deer died.
- In other words, the owners of the buck deer in Edgar were held as much to the standards of the owner of a domestic animal as that of a wild animal owner.
- The most magnificent of these was a buck's head - antlers and all - which was mounted above the fireplace.
- The double trigger setup on the Mountain Rifle allows for a quick shot by simply pulling the front trigger should a whitetail buck break cover in front of the hunter.
- 1.1 A male hare, rabbit, ferret, rat, or kangaroo.
公兔；公白鼬；公鼠；公袋鼠 Example sentencesExamples - During my North Cotswold Mastership, I made Butler, the terrier man, carry a huge white buck ferret on his bicycle, and very useful he proved to be.
- Marion had never got on with her father, but right now if she saw his face she'd have cheerfully swung the three strong buck rabbits she was carrying into it.
- John, as mentioned at the outset, had two dogs that were almost drowned by a wild buck kangaroo when it took them on in a small reservoir on his family's property.
- Buck hares are wild frolickers in March, their breeding season, which has made them a synonym for lunacy for centuries.
- 1.2South African An antelope of either sex.
〈南非〉（雌或雄的）羚羊。比较BUSHBUCK，REEDBUCK，WATERBUCK Example sentencesExamples - Apart from a long list of game in the park which includes giraffe, zebra, hippos, warthogs and a large variety of buck, the park is home to thousands of cycads of all sorts and sizes.
- A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close.
- Animals on the farm include wildebeest, zebra, giraffe and numerous types of buck.
- In the north we then saw full-up jumping goats, brick buck, bald buck, camel horses and also more cats.
- The Johannesburg Zoo is proud to announce the birth, over the New Year, of four baby bucks.
2 another term for vaulting horse Example sentencesExamples - We would be made to do all the usual humiliating routines of trying to climb the ropes, balance on beams, hang upside down on the wall bars and on occasion, vault over a ‘horse’ or ‘buck’.
- In the States years ago and long before anyone ever heard of adjustable cables, a small version of the vaulting horse was called the buck.
- No work on the buck is presented here because so few gymnasia are equipped with this apparatus.
3A vertical jump performed by a horse, with the head lowered, back arched, and back legs thrown out behind. （马突然做出的）弯背跃起 the horse seemed to leap, making a mighty buck that shipped the rider off Example sentencesExamples - I plunged into a rage of bucks, kicks, rears, jumps, and twists.
- Every so often she would give a little buck, rear or jump.
- The black horse gave a hard buck and finally managed to dislodge his rider who flew through the air and then finally hit the ground with a loud crunch and then she lay there motionless.
- Quinn's horse went into a gallop, followed by a small buck.
- About 10 minutes into the lesson he did one of his handstand bucks and sent me flying towards the floor.
4archaic A fashionable and spirited young man. 〈古〉纨绔子弟，花花公子 the dashing young buck, driving his own equipage Example sentencesExamples - Too many old heads and too many young bucks not having had the time to cut their teeth properly.
- For many of the young bucks in their scarlet tunics, what starts as a great imperial adventure ends in either a squalid death or captivity.
- That old cliche of a blend of young bucks and seasoned campaigners was there in abundance.
- When the boss is gone, the young bucks want to move up and take over.
- He's both the wise man and the young buck trying to prove himself.
verb bʌkbək 1no object (of a horse) to perform a buck. （马）突然弯背跃起 he's got to get his head down to buck 他不得不低下头，弓背跃起。 with object she bucked them off if they tried to get on her back 假如他们试图跨到她背上，她就把他们掀下去。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, the horse bucked and she was thrown to the ground.
- In order for a horse to buck, it has to lower its head and slow its pace to bring both hind legs together and underneath to gain enough power to push upwards.
- Lopez dislocated a shoulder when his mount, Quoit Alarming, bucked and unseated him during the first race at Monmouth Park on September 11.
- Croft's horse bucked; Croft tugged on the reins and backed away.
- When the horse bucks you, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get right back on.
- The young stallion was bucking and rearing, trying to get the man off his back.
- Sarah mounted a horse and it bucked, throwing her into the air.
- The horse was small, but it was sturdy, and it suddenly started bucking and plunging in a manner that would have done a bronco proud.
- His hair stood on end, as if he'd been running his hands through it; ink stained one finger; and he had the wild-eyed look of a horse about to start bucking.
- The gelding had almost bucked her off several times, and all we had done was walk and trot.
- Her horse reared, its eyes rimmed with white as it bolted away, the other three riderless horses bucked until their tethers snapped and galloped after it.
- The Parker boy had broken his arm when he was bucked off a horse.
- She was about to lead the three-year-old in from the paddock when another horse in the yard unsettled him and he bucked, kicking Blanche under the jaw and knocking her unconscious.
- Suddenly he began to buck, throwing me around like a rag doll.
- There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
- Suddenly, his horse bucked and Henry nearly fell off.
- Proper dental care has eliminated dangerous behaviors such as bolting, flipping over backwards, and bucking in a number of my clients' horses.
- Yes, I rode a horse, got bucked off and that was the last time I will ever get near a horse.
- Ben's horse was bucking and Ben was hanging on tight so he wouldn't get thrown.
- The startled horse bucked again and let out a whinny as the rider held tight to the reigns and tugged back.
- 1.1 (of a vehicle) make sudden jerky movements.
（车辆）突然颠簸 the boat began to buck in the water Example sentencesExamples - The boat bucked and spun and entered the rapids.
- The rafts bucked under us, bobbing and tilting.
- I could feel the ship trembling and bucking while Maura tried to keep it under control.
- As the bullets chewed through the surface each helicopter bucked as it took the weight of the shell, and Paul uttered a brief murmur to himself as their car accelerated toward the gate, hoping the helicopters could take the load.
- The vessel bucked and swerved as the upper atmosphere began to tug and grab at the smooth underside of the glider-car.
- He forgot his musing when the Blue Horizon banked to the starboard and then suddenly bucked upward.
- As the current funnels through a gauntlet of rhino-sized rocks, our pair of six-metre rafts plunge and buck like paper cups in a storm drain.
- At that moment the ship bucked and smashed over to one side.
- Diving into turn one at over 120 mph, the rough track had the bike bucking around some.
- An instant later several more bursts of fire followed, and the ship bucked into the air and then smashed back down, its landing struts sheering off completely.
- I couldn't avoid them all, and the ship bucked and heaved under me as more rocks than I would like to count peppered our outer hull.
- As I pushed the bike closer to the limit a problem emerged: even though the suspension was working as hard as it could, the bike began to buck beneath me.
- But then the ship bucked as missiles rained from above.
- The truck bucked violently as the shock wave slammed against it, and Ian was pelted with small stones and dust, first from behind, then a split second later from the opposite direction.
- It also takes a great deal of leg strength for explosive sprints on the flat sections, and a great deal of upper body strength just to control the bike as it bucks under you.
- The ship shuddered and bucked but no damage was taken.
- A few seconds later and the car began to buck and slide out of control.
- The tall ship bucked hard to the side, then back down again.
- The first hundred yards of the tunnel were the worst - the road was heavily cratered, and our vehicles bucked and shuddered wildly, spraying snowmelt into the blackness.
- The raft bucked to one side, and for one terrible moment it seemed that it would spill all the way over.
2with object Oppose or resist (something oppressive or inevitable) 反抗，抵制（似乎难以忍受或不可避免的事物） the shares bucked the market trend 股票价格与市场趋势相反。 Example sentencesExamples - While the number of people participating in more traditional forms of organised sport continues to decline, this trend is being bucked in dramatic style by the level of interest in the many new events that veer from the mainstream.
- Which means now is the perfect time to buck the trend and get in while the market is at a pricing low.
- Three debutants on Hong Kong bourses bucked the general market trend yesterday that saw the Hang Seng Index plunge for a second day to end down 1.5 per cent.
- The outgoing chief executive still believes you cannot buck the market.
- The gold shares bucked the general trend today and closed on or near their highs with the South Africans firmer due to the softening rand.
- But Dunloe's share price has bucked the trend, up 39% since January 1 and up by 65% over the year.
- However sales of MG models were up 10% to 9,540 - bucking the market trend which saw overall sales down by more than 7%.
- This must be what they meant by not bucking the market.
- Scottish Equity Partners, the Glasgow-based independent venture capital company, is bucking the market trend by expanding both its Glasgow and London offices.
- In those ten years the research centre had helped Smith and Nephew to become much more profitable and has grown in stature - and in share price which bucked the recent downward stock market trend to end 2.5 times higher than a decade ago.
- But, as I explained here and especially here, the stock market is bucking some fairly powerful deflationary currents, in both the the U.S. and the global economies.
- European bourses ended the week in the red yesterday, but the Irish market bucked the trend managing to stay ahead throughout the day's trading.
- It closed its first day of trading at 37 cents a share and has bucked a trend afflicting other new listings by rising to 41 cents as of the April 12 market close.
- Prices at the top end of the central-London market continue to rise slightly, bucking the national trend.
- So, does it make more sense to bet on gold shares to start bucking this trend again - or is it better to jump on the bandwagon and do as the Chinese do?
- However, the one market niche bucking the downward trend this year has been that catering for first-time buyers.
- But Keighley is bucking the trend, especially by maintaining engineering manufacturing levels, in contrast to the slump in manufacturing in the rest of the country over the period of the Labour Government.
- But Google, until today, surprised many by bucking the market trends for so long.
- But whenever coaches buck conventional wisdom, they face intense scrutiny from reporters and fans.
- But despite the market hurdles they face, some small brewers are bucking the trend.
Synonyms resist, oppose, contradict, defy, fight (against), go against, kick against 3buck someone up" or "buck upinformal Make or become more cheerful. 〈非正式〉使振奋（或振作） with object Bella and Jim need me to buck them up 贝拉和杰姆要我去让他们振奋起来。 no object buck up, kid, it's not the end of the game 振作起来！孩子，游戏还没结束呢。 Example sentencesExamples - He has at last loftily declared his extremely qualified support for Charlie - providing the laddie bucks up.
- I think that they're going to be bucked up and encouraged by Senator Kerry's performance tonight, and I think they'll be more energy on the Democratic side.
- The Japanese data bucks up the yen against the dollar and the Euro specially, after the poor US data and also not much better data coming forth from Europe.
- We're hoping to get a bit of gardening in tomorrow and, if so, the fresh air and gentle exercise will buck me up no end.
- When Villanova was down 12 points early in the second half on Feb.13, the team could depend on more than 20,000 fans at the Wachovia Center to buck them up.
- And I have come to suspect that all my efforts are acting as a bracing tonic to the weeds, bucking them up nicely, and aerating the soil for their growing pleasure.
- So even though I bucked up as the evening went on and the air cleared, it's been a less than pleasant day.
- What he was doing was, I think, trying to buck me up so that when I went in to this principal's meeting I was sufficiently on-guard against the kind of bureaucratic inertia that he had fought all of his life.
- He visited the far-flung corners of his empire, bucking up his troops but also stamping out incipient rebellions.
- She then proceeded to say that I should stop sponging off other people and start bucking up.
- On a psychic level, he used his own comeback as the example that gave Sammy the strength to return to performing, bucking him up every day and making one-eye jokes that somehow took the curse off Sammy's disability.
- Our spirits were bucked up a little by seeing a third work stashed away behind a wall called Square, a video piece that documented people having their photos taken in Tiananmen Square.
- It's a good test again for us and hopefully it will buck us up for the next five or six weeks.
- A new, comfortingly rich deal with EMI bucked them up no end, apparently.
- Much worse may yet come to trouble Airdrie as they scramble to safeguard their long-term future, but they will not have top-tier football to help them, barring a bucking up of form on their part and a bit more bungling by the men from Maryhill.
- He bucks you up and tutors you and guides you and mentors you.
- And instead of bucking up and marketing myself to new clients, instead of choosing to view this ‘challenge’ as an ‘opportunity’ like I'd been taught in so many motivational seminars, I chose to complain.
- Whenever anyone felt down, she would buck them up with cheery word.
- The cartoons are little morality plays aimed at bucking up the national will, putting steel in the spine, gently guiding the reluctant towards their duties.
- So I shall have a look at the tonics on offer and perhaps get her something to try and buck her up a bit.
Synonyms cheer up, perk up, take heart, rally, pick up, bounce back become more cheerful, become livelier cheer up, brighten up, buoy up, ginger up, perk up, rally, animate, invigorate, hearten, uplift, encourage, stimulate, enliven, make someone happier, raise someone's spirits, give someone a lift informal pep up rare inspirit
adjective bʌkbək US military slang Lowest of a particular rank. 〈美，军俚〉（某一军衔等级中）级别最低的 三等兵。 Example sentencesExamples - Pat Reid was buck private to begin with and, even though he was in charge of an important group, he remained a buck private until the day he left Spain.
- Like the old buck sergeant he is, Shipley hurried them off to the appropriate ticket agent.
- In 1954, I became a Ph.D. in mathematics and a buck private in the Army.
- I was a buck private, private first class, sergeant, staff sergeant, first sergeant, and then I became a second lieutenant.
Phrasesinformal Become more serious, energetic, and hard-working. 变得更认真；变得更有活力；变得更努力 she wouldn't have a job, she realized, if she didn't buck up her ideas Example sentencesExamples - Todd gave Windass and Andy Cooke 15 minutes after the break to buck up their ideas following a disappointing first half.
- Moone bucked up their ideas at the start of the second half and two goals from Sean Higgins had Moone back in the match.
- The fact that in future it will cost airlines money if they overbook or cancel flights should force them to buck up their ideas and put passengers first.
- Pickering Town boss Jimmy Reid has issued a stark warning to his players - buck up your ideas or lose your place.
- The goal breathed much-needed life into Scotland but it also resulted in the US bucking up their ideas.
- The retailers may see it as a one-off bumper windfall, but the government is distinctly less impressed and hopes the naming and shaming campaign will cause shops to buck up their ideas.
- And although the season is just 90 minutes old, he would rather not be having to hand out warnings to two of his new signings that, if they don't buck up their ideas, they will soon be out of the team.
- England bucked up their ideas after the break and capitalised on the Slovaks’ tiring before a late rally in which they almost sneaked an equaliser in the dying seconds.
- Arsene Wenger's side will have to buck up their ideas away from home, although the striking form of Thierry Henry will at least give them hope of scoring in any destination.
- I think we all need to buck up our ideas a bit and concentrate on what we can do.
OriginOld English, partly from buc 'male deer' (of Germanic origin, related to Dutch bok and German Bock); reinforced by bucca 'male goat', of the same ultimate origin. From the mid 19th century in poker a buck is an article placed as a reminder in front of a player whose turn it is to deal at poker. This is the buck in to pass the buck, ‘to shift the responsibility to someone else’—to pass the buck is to hand over the responsibility for dealing to the next player. The original buck may have been the handle of a buckhorn knife used as a marker. A related expression is the buck stops here. The US President Harry S. Truman had this as a motto on his desk, indicating that the ultimate responsibility for running the country lay with him. The buckhorn came from Old English. The phrases buck someone up and buck up one's ideas have a connection with the sharp jerk of the buck's butting movements, while the verb to buck (mid 19th century) seems to have come from the way a buck jumps. Why a US dollar has been known as a buck from the mid 18th century is unclear, but it may have been from the use of buckskins as a medium of exchange particularly among frontiersmen and Native Americans.
RhymesCanuck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck noun bʌkbək Australian, North American, NZ informal 1A dollar. 〈北美，澳/新西兰，非正式〉（一）美元；（一）澳元 a run-down hotel room for five bucks a night 一间破旧的旅馆房间，租金每晚五美元。 Example sentencesExamples - I know, but it's just five bucks, and at this point I'm almost eager to give it to him.
- I saved up and bought it at the local pawnshop for seventy-five bucks, a deal as far as I was concerned.
- They range in price from several dollars to around twenty-five bucks.
- Spree somehow convinced the Knicks to reduce his fine from 150,000 dollars to just 2,500 bucks…
- This is a bit of a side note but five bucks says the town of Greenville isn't green at all.
- I was sitting at the bar, having a couple of quiet ones with a bloke I know only distantly, when a voice behind me said ‘Lend us five bucks.’
- The girl gave him a whole fifty bucks and received three dollars change.
- They will get a $2,500 pay increase, and they will get to keep five bucks.
- Can you imagine paying 47 bucks to watch skateboarding?
- Now, how could he turn a few bucks out of this deal?
- Sure, you can stay home, save a few bucks and see the game on TV, but what's the fun in that?
- It's a $20.00 registration plus Green fees of about five bucks.
- It was only about 8 euros, which is about US 10 bucks.
- They claim they're going to save a few hundred million bucks in the deal.
- Maybe just two bucks for a soda or five bucks for a beer, but that's still money I don't have.
- I just bought a Liz Claiborne sweater at Goodwill for five bucks.
- Men in business suits would leave me a buck on a fifty dollar tab.
- Pay me five thousand bucks and I'll speak at your corporate function.
- Surely they would have no problem forking out a few extra bucks for a DVD player.
- If you don't want a full meal, you can get roti bread with satay sauce for five bucks.
- 1.1South African A rand.
Example sentencesExamples - This weekend I watched the live lotto draw and wondered what the winner of 10 million bucks would be doing with their cash.
- Terrible, terrible movie, waste of 20 bucks, wish I could go back in time and kick myself for choosing to watch that.
- I have a cake to make for an 8-year-old's birthday, by order, which will bring in a few bucks on Friday.
- I'd love to subscribe, but it costs nearly a thousand bucks with our meagre currency!
- I don't think I won a million bucks, I think I earned it the hard way.
- 1.2Indian A rupee.
〈印度，非正式〉卢比 Example sentencesExamples - Most of the children earn a few bucks by begging or trash-picking.
- But today, since the auto driver demanded 35 bucks, I decided to walk.
- Chai in the mall costs 15 bucks and paani puris were Rs. 20 for 5.
- There were more than the expected number of guests and I had to arrange for tea and samosas for them and that cost 90 bucks.
- Reflecting on the days when he struggled to make a few bucks, Muthukad feels that he has come a long way from the days when he used to set aside money for his return trip soon after reaching the place for his performance.
Phrasessee big Example sentencesExamples - It's a lot of pressure but the players know that and they get paid big bucks, so they have to put up with it - as long as it's not physical violence.
- We're going to show you why some bold thieves may not be making big bucks off their amazing heist.
- And the fans have paid big bucks to see this fight, and nothing is happening.
- With big bucks shaping the industry, the emphasis shifts from drugs that cure to those that sell.
- It's easy for some people to go out and drop the big bucks on a bottle of wine, and up to a certain point, you generally get what you pay for.
- The world's best women tennis players gather to compete for big bucks.
- That's what your boss gets the big bucks for, so pass it on.
- Free speech is of limited value when freedom to be heard requires big bucks.
- She figured she was already in the money so why not take a shot at the big bucks.
- And big publishers definitely want to make big bucks out of the kiddie segment.
Easily and quickly earned money. 易得之财 itinerant traders out to make a fast buck 他们是流动商人，一心想赚快钱。 Example sentencesExamples - This is true because with poverty levels now at more than 80 per cent temptations for citizens to earn a quick buck become much harder to resist.
- Perhaps he has never visited tourist attractions in the capital and elsewhere and seen the vendors of ice cream and hot dogs making a fast buck at the expense of tourists.
- Investors saw an opportunity in snapping up new houses and apartments, seeing the opportunity for a quick buck as rents climbed sharply.
- What shocked them the second time was his avid pursuit of a quick buck through a share deal.
- But the facts speak for themselves - people are still out there in the dark risking their lives in pursuit of a quick buck.
- Senior executives believe investors will be carried away by exaggerated advertising and cash in on their pensions and homes in the hope of making a fast buck.
- The chance of earning a fast buck has given birth to a thriving souvenir industry on the streets around, selling stuff that ranges from the sympathetic to the sick.
- Governments hoping to earn a fast buck by switching off analogue television transmitters and selling the frequencies to cellphone operators are in for a shock.
- Sydney's harbour and many iconic sites are up for grabs because of the senseless pursuit of a fast buck, writes Paul Keating.
- These funds are not the domain of speculative, sophisticated individuals who put their money in for a quick buck.
- Ultimately the show celebrates friendship, and the extraordinary lengths these ordinary men will go to earn a fast buck and restore pride in their lives.
- I don't want to be forced into earning a quick buck.
- No one would dispute the need to stop farmers attempting to evade planning regulations and make a fast buck by building expensive homes on green field sites.
- Those who became landlords fairly recently, to make a fast buck from rising house prices, are most likely to panic.
- Plus, by sending our troops, we get to earn a quick buck on the side.
- For the new government elite, it is a place to make a fast buck from reclaimed farms and misdirected aid money.
- I urged everybody not to aim for the quick buck because any money you get will be slowly cancelled out by increased insurance premiums for almost everything!
- I do understand that times can be difficult for galleries and that they have to make money and the fast buck is tempting.
- However, analysts say there is no such thing as a quick buck to be earned in America and investors should be taking at least a 10-year view.
- Many people think that the book industry is just another racket out to make a quick buck by inflating prices and preying on readers' desire for good, cheap books.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. noun bʌkbək An article placed as a reminder in front of a player whose turn it is to deal at poker. 培克（扑克牌戏中的一种用来提醒轮到某人发牌的标志） Example sentencesExamples - Poker and politics have often been intertwined. Harry Truman had his own presidential poker chips, and the "buck" which stopped at his desk is also from the game.
- The "dealer" for a given hand will hold the dealer button, or buck. When the hand is completed, the button is passed to the player on the left.
- In Texas Hold 'Em a plastic puck or a buck (a silver dollar) rotates around the table to signify the dealer.
Phrasesthe buck stops here (or with someone) informal The responsibility for something cannot or should not be passed to someone else. 〈非正式〉责任止于此 in the past you could spread the blame, but now the buck stops here Example sentencesExamples - Those people that are trying to shift focus should realize what Harry Truman said a long time ago, the buck stops here.
- Surely the public is entitled to know, because the buck stops here, where the votes are.
- He's also willing, more often than not, to stand up and do a Harry Truman, take positions, and say the buck stops here.
- When the buck stops here - when you're responsible for the ultimate shareholder value - you've got to take 10 or 30 or 100 variables into consideration.
- ‘The controllers are all highly trained and they will handle all the aircraft passing through our airspace but, ultimately I am the general manager so the buck stops here’, he said.
- ‘I'm the compliance officer, so you're right, the buck stops here in the end,’ she said.
- Nor has he shown any inclination to properly organize his economic troops, or to deal with the fact that the buck stops with the chief executive.
- We are all to blame tonight, but I signed the players and I suppose the buck stops with me.
- He hasn't taken a leadership role to say, ‘Yes, the buck stops here.’
- ‘Since we provide the funding and oversight for the agency, the buck stops here,’ said Mr. Hollings.
informal Shift the responsibility for something to someone else. 〈非正式〉责任止于此 elected political leaders cannot pass the buck for crisis decisions to any alternative source of authority Example sentencesExamples - It seems to me that it is far easier to pass the buck than to take personal responsibility for our own actions.
- This is unfair and shows that a hidden tax is often a devious tax, especially when the Government passes the buck to local councils and then disclaims all responsibility for what is going on.
- What is especially telling is the depiction of a bureaucracy unable to react, passing the buck and avoiding responsibility.
- Have you ever noticed, ironically, that the folks who spend so much time talking about ‘responsibility’ are usually the first to try to pass the buck?
- Instead they have been engaged in the old game of passing the buck, and shifting all blame onto the civil service.
- It seems they keep on passing the buck - no one wants to accept responsibility.
- But have any so breezily dodged responsibility and so glibly passed the buck?
- The government can pass the buck to companies, and workers can abdicate all responsibility.
- It seems as if government departments are playing games with us, passing the buck from one minister to another.
- I don't know if it's been chief and council passing the buck or the co-manager passing the buck.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. nounbəkbək 1The male of some horned animals, especially the fallow deer, roe deer, reindeer, and antelopes. 雄性有角动物（尤指雄性扁角鹿、狍、驯鹿和羚羊）。比较DOE Compare with doe Example sentencesExamples - I saw a beautiful dark-horned buck standing with a doe on a sun-splashed, frost-sparkled flat near the edge of a canyon.
- Hunters selectively cull the does to make more forage available for the bucks.
- The most magnificent of these was a buck's head - antlers and all - which was mounted above the fireplace.
- In central Iowa, purebred bucks and does cost $500 or more per animal.
- Some places base the cost of a deer hunt on the size of a buck's antlers - the bigger the antlers, the more the hunt costs.
- Growth of an organ, such as a buck's antlers, requires additional nourishment and that means additional blood flow.
- Herein, we consider two main hypotheses to assess the possible function of the post-copulatory vocalization of fallow bucks.
- They'd seen three roe deer in the woods, a hind and two bucks, moving ‘silent and in slow motion through the snow’.
- Add a host of maturing bucks from a bumper fawn crop six years ago and the potential for trophy-class deer is excellent.
- They require no hanging, and the meat is pale and tender; that of does is considered better than that of bucks (males).
- In a year as magical as this one, impressive bucks are scattered throughout the state, but those animals won't be easy to see just now.
- Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks.
- And it has particularly infuriated park managers because the owner of an Alsatian watched as her dog chased the buck and then fled the scene while the deer died.
- Outdoors enthusiasts who can ignore the season's monster bucks and swarming quail will find excellent largemouth bass action.
- When, freezing and exhausted, he finally felt land beneath his limbs, the buck collapsed.
- They had red skin, and small horns like a buck's newly sprouting antlers.
- Just about 15 minutes ago, we're told a white deer - a white buck - was tranquilized and is now being brought for medical treatment.
- In other words, the owners of the buck deer in Edgar were held as much to the standards of the owner of a domestic animal as that of a wild animal owner.
- On the drive back to Shelby a big buck deer jumped across the road only a few yards in front of us.
- The double trigger setup on the Mountain Rifle allows for a quick shot by simply pulling the front trigger should a whitetail buck break cover in front of the hunter.
- 1.1 A male hare, rabbit, ferret, rat, or kangaroo.
公兔；公白鼬；公鼠；公袋鼠 Example sentencesExamples - Buck hares are wild frolickers in March, their breeding season, which has made them a synonym for lunacy for centuries.
- During my North Cotswold Mastership, I made Butler, the terrier man, carry a huge white buck ferret on his bicycle, and very useful he proved to be.
- Marion had never got on with her father, but right now if she saw his face she'd have cheerfully swung the three strong buck rabbits she was carrying into it.
- John, as mentioned at the outset, had two dogs that were almost drowned by a wild buck kangaroo when it took them on in a small reservoir on his family's property.
2A vaulting horse. 同VAULTING HORSE Example sentencesExamples - We would be made to do all the usual humiliating routines of trying to climb the ropes, balance on beams, hang upside down on the wall bars and on occasion, vault over a ‘horse’ or ‘buck’.
- In the States years ago and long before anyone ever heard of adjustable cables, a small version of the vaulting horse was called the buck.
- No work on the buck is presented here because so few gymnasia are equipped with this apparatus.
3A vertical jump performed by a horse, with the head lowered, back arched, and back legs thrown out behind. （马突然做出的）弯背跃起 Example sentencesExamples - Every so often she would give a little buck, rear or jump.
- About 10 minutes into the lesson he did one of his handstand bucks and sent me flying towards the floor.
- I plunged into a rage of bucks, kicks, rears, jumps, and twists.
- The black horse gave a hard buck and finally managed to dislodge his rider who flew through the air and then finally hit the ground with a loud crunch and then she lay there motionless.
- Quinn's horse went into a gallop, followed by a small buck.
4archaic A fashionable and typically high-spirited young man. 〈古〉纨绔子弟，花花公子 Example sentencesExamples - When the boss is gone, the young bucks want to move up and take over.
- For many of the young bucks in their scarlet tunics, what starts as a great imperial adventure ends in either a squalid death or captivity.
- Too many old heads and too many young bucks not having had the time to cut their teeth properly.
- That old cliche of a blend of young bucks and seasoned campaigners was there in abundance.
- He's both the wise man and the young buck trying to prove himself.
5offensive, informal A black or North American Indian man. 6bucksAn oxford shoe made of buckskin. Example sentencesExamples - Our school was avant-garde in that respect. We wore grey bucks and anklets but did not have to wear hose.
- Approved attire included straw boater hats and canes, usually worn with Bermuda shorts; in the 1950's flannels, waistcoats, and white bucks were worn to some of the dances
- The buck, which comes in tan for wear in cooler weather, is either an oxford or a blucher made from unlined buckskin or reversed calf.
verbbəkbək 1no object (of a horse) to perform a buck. （马）突然弯背跃起 he's got to get his head down to buck 他不得不低下头，弓背跃起。 with object she bucked them off if they tried to get on her back 假如他们试图跨到她背上，她就把他们掀下去。 Example sentencesExamples - His hair stood on end, as if he'd been running his hands through it; ink stained one finger; and he had the wild-eyed look of a horse about to start bucking.
- The gelding had almost bucked her off several times, and all we had done was walk and trot.
- When the horse bucks you, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get right back on.
- There were no horses bucking in their stalls, no chickens clucking on the ground.
- The Parker boy had broken his arm when he was bucked off a horse.
- Sarah mounted a horse and it bucked, throwing her into the air.
- Croft's horse bucked; Croft tugged on the reins and backed away.
- Lopez dislocated a shoulder when his mount, Quoit Alarming, bucked and unseated him during the first race at Monmouth Park on September 11.
- Her horse reared, its eyes rimmed with white as it bolted away, the other three riderless horses bucked until their tethers snapped and galloped after it.
- Suddenly, his horse bucked and Henry nearly fell off.
- The young stallion was bucking and rearing, trying to get the man off his back.
- Proper dental care has eliminated dangerous behaviors such as bolting, flipping over backwards, and bucking in a number of my clients' horses.
- Yes, I rode a horse, got bucked off and that was the last time I will ever get near a horse.
- Ben's horse was bucking and Ben was hanging on tight so he wouldn't get thrown.
- She was about to lead the three-year-old in from the paddock when another horse in the yard unsettled him and he bucked, kicking Blanche under the jaw and knocking her unconscious.
- The horse was small, but it was sturdy, and it suddenly started bucking and plunging in a manner that would have done a bronco proud.
- Suddenly he began to buck, throwing me around like a rag doll.
- The startled horse bucked again and let out a whinny as the rider held tight to the reigns and tugged back.
- In order for a horse to buck, it has to lower its head and slow its pace to bring both hind legs together and underneath to gain enough power to push upwards.
- Unfortunately, the horse bucked and she was thrown to the ground.
- 1.1 (of a vehicle) make sudden jerky movements.
（车辆）突然颠簸 the boat began to buck in the water Example sentencesExamples - The ship shuddered and bucked but no damage was taken.
- As I pushed the bike closer to the limit a problem emerged: even though the suspension was working as hard as it could, the bike began to buck beneath me.
- The tall ship bucked hard to the side, then back down again.
- But then the ship bucked as missiles rained from above.
- As the bullets chewed through the surface each helicopter bucked as it took the weight of the shell, and Paul uttered a brief murmur to himself as their car accelerated toward the gate, hoping the helicopters could take the load.
- The first hundred yards of the tunnel were the worst - the road was heavily cratered, and our vehicles bucked and shuddered wildly, spraying snowmelt into the blackness.
- The truck bucked violently as the shock wave slammed against it, and Ian was pelted with small stones and dust, first from behind, then a split second later from the opposite direction.
- A few seconds later and the car began to buck and slide out of control.
- It also takes a great deal of leg strength for explosive sprints on the flat sections, and a great deal of upper body strength just to control the bike as it bucks under you.
- Diving into turn one at over 120 mph, the rough track had the bike bucking around some.
- I could feel the ship trembling and bucking while Maura tried to keep it under control.
- I couldn't avoid them all, and the ship bucked and heaved under me as more rocks than I would like to count peppered our outer hull.
- The vessel bucked and swerved as the upper atmosphere began to tug and grab at the smooth underside of the glider-car.
- The rafts bucked under us, bobbing and tilting.
- The raft bucked to one side, and for one terrible moment it seemed that it would spill all the way over.
- As the current funnels through a gauntlet of rhino-sized rocks, our pair of six-metre rafts plunge and buck like paper cups in a storm drain.
- The boat bucked and spun and entered the rapids.
- An instant later several more bursts of fire followed, and the ship bucked into the air and then smashed back down, its landing struts sheering off completely.
- He forgot his musing when the Blue Horizon banked to the starboard and then suddenly bucked upward.
- At that moment the ship bucked and smashed over to one side.
2with object Oppose or resist (something that seems oppressive or inevitable) 反抗，抵制（似乎难以忍受或不可避免的事物） the shares bucked the market trend 股票价格与市场趋势相反。 Example sentencesExamples - Scottish Equity Partners, the Glasgow-based independent venture capital company, is bucking the market trend by expanding both its Glasgow and London offices.
- But Keighley is bucking the trend, especially by maintaining engineering manufacturing levels, in contrast to the slump in manufacturing in the rest of the country over the period of the Labour Government.
- But Dunloe's share price has bucked the trend, up 39% since January 1 and up by 65% over the year.
- In those ten years the research centre had helped Smith and Nephew to become much more profitable and has grown in stature - and in share price which bucked the recent downward stock market trend to end 2.5 times higher than a decade ago.
- Three debutants on Hong Kong bourses bucked the general market trend yesterday that saw the Hang Seng Index plunge for a second day to end down 1.5 per cent.
- But whenever coaches buck conventional wisdom, they face intense scrutiny from reporters and fans.
- European bourses ended the week in the red yesterday, but the Irish market bucked the trend managing to stay ahead throughout the day's trading.
- But Google, until today, surprised many by bucking the market trends for so long.
- Which means now is the perfect time to buck the trend and get in while the market is at a pricing low.
- So, does it make more sense to bet on gold shares to start bucking this trend again - or is it better to jump on the bandwagon and do as the Chinese do?
- However, the one market niche bucking the downward trend this year has been that catering for first-time buyers.
- Prices at the top end of the central-London market continue to rise slightly, bucking the national trend.
- This must be what they meant by not bucking the market.
- It closed its first day of trading at 37 cents a share and has bucked a trend afflicting other new listings by rising to 41 cents as of the April 12 market close.
- The gold shares bucked the general trend today and closed on or near their highs with the South Africans firmer due to the softening rand.
- But, as I explained here and especially here, the stock market is bucking some fairly powerful deflationary currents, in both the the U.S. and the global economies.
- While the number of people participating in more traditional forms of organised sport continues to decline, this trend is being bucked in dramatic style by the level of interest in the many new events that veer from the mainstream.
- The outgoing chief executive still believes you cannot buck the market.
- However sales of MG models were up 10% to 9,540 - bucking the market trend which saw overall sales down by more than 7%.
- But despite the market hurdles they face, some small brewers are bucking the trend.
Synonyms resist, oppose, contradict, defy, fight, fight against, go against, kick against 3informal with object Make (someone) more cheerful. 〈非正式〉使振奋（或振作） Bella and Jim need me to buck them up 贝拉和杰姆要我去让他们振奋起来。 no object buck up, kid, it's not the end of the world 振作起来！孩子，游戏还没结束呢。 Example sentencesExamples - He visited the far-flung corners of his empire, bucking up his troops but also stamping out incipient rebellions.
- It's a good test again for us and hopefully it will buck us up for the next five or six weeks.
- She then proceeded to say that I should stop sponging off other people and start bucking up.
- We're hoping to get a bit of gardening in tomorrow and, if so, the fresh air and gentle exercise will buck me up no end.
- Whenever anyone felt down, she would buck them up with cheery word.
- Our spirits were bucked up a little by seeing a third work stashed away behind a wall called Square, a video piece that documented people having their photos taken in Tiananmen Square.
- What he was doing was, I think, trying to buck me up so that when I went in to this principal's meeting I was sufficiently on-guard against the kind of bureaucratic inertia that he had fought all of his life.
- When Villanova was down 12 points early in the second half on Feb.13, the team could depend on more than 20,000 fans at the Wachovia Center to buck them up.
- And instead of bucking up and marketing myself to new clients, instead of choosing to view this ‘challenge’ as an ‘opportunity’ like I'd been taught in so many motivational seminars, I chose to complain.
- On a psychic level, he used his own comeback as the example that gave Sammy the strength to return to performing, bucking him up every day and making one-eye jokes that somehow took the curse off Sammy's disability.
- So even though I bucked up as the evening went on and the air cleared, it's been a less than pleasant day.
- He bucks you up and tutors you and guides you and mentors you.
- And I have come to suspect that all my efforts are acting as a bracing tonic to the weeds, bucking them up nicely, and aerating the soil for their growing pleasure.
- He has at last loftily declared his extremely qualified support for Charlie - providing the laddie bucks up.
- Much worse may yet come to trouble Airdrie as they scramble to safeguard their long-term future, but they will not have top-tier football to help them, barring a bucking up of form on their part and a bit more bungling by the men from Maryhill.
- The Japanese data bucks up the yen against the dollar and the Euro specially, after the poor US data and also not much better data coming forth from Europe.
- So I shall have a look at the tonics on offer and perhaps get her something to try and buck her up a bit.
- I think that they're going to be bucked up and encouraged by Senator Kerry's performance tonight, and I think they'll be more energy on the Democratic side.
- The cartoons are little morality plays aimed at bucking up the national will, putting steel in the spine, gently guiding the reluctant towards their duties.
- A new, comfortingly rich deal with EMI bucked them up no end, apparently.
Synonyms cheer up, perk up, take heart, rally, pick up, bounce back cheer up, brighten up, buoy up, ginger up, perk up, rally, animate, invigorate, hearten, uplift, encourage, stimulate, enliven, make someone happier, raise someone's spirits, give someone a lift
adjectivebəkbək US military slang Lowest of a particular rank. 〈美，军俚〉（某一军衔等级中）级别最低的 三等兵。 Example sentencesExamples - I was a buck private, private first class, sergeant, staff sergeant, first sergeant, and then I became a second lieutenant.
- Pat Reid was buck private to begin with and, even though he was in charge of an important group, he remained a buck private until the day he left Spain.
- Like the old buck sergeant he is, Shipley hurried them off to the appropriate ticket agent.
- In 1954, I became a Ph.D. in mathematics and a buck private in the Army.
OriginOld English, partly from buc ‘male deer’ (of Germanic origin, related to Dutch bok and German Bock); reinforced by bucca ‘male goat’, of the same ultimate origin. nounbəkbək North American, Australian, NZ informal A dollar. 〈北美，澳/新西兰，非正式〉（一）美元；（一）澳元 a run-down hotel room for five bucks a night 一间破旧的旅馆房间，租金每晚五美元。 Example sentencesExamples - They range in price from several dollars to around twenty-five bucks.
- I just bought a Liz Claiborne sweater at Goodwill for five bucks.
- Can you imagine paying 47 bucks to watch skateboarding?
- They claim they're going to save a few hundred million bucks in the deal.
- Maybe just two bucks for a soda or five bucks for a beer, but that's still money I don't have.
- Now, how could he turn a few bucks out of this deal?
- I know, but it's just five bucks, and at this point I'm almost eager to give it to him.
- I saved up and bought it at the local pawnshop for seventy-five bucks, a deal as far as I was concerned.
- This is a bit of a side note but five bucks says the town of Greenville isn't green at all.
- Surely they would have no problem forking out a few extra bucks for a DVD player.
- It's a $20.00 registration plus Green fees of about five bucks.
- Men in business suits would leave me a buck on a fifty dollar tab.
- They will get a $2,500 pay increase, and they will get to keep five bucks.
- Pay me five thousand bucks and I'll speak at your corporate function.
- Sure, you can stay home, save a few bucks and see the game on TV, but what's the fun in that?
- It was only about 8 euros, which is about US 10 bucks.
- The girl gave him a whole fifty bucks and received three dollars change.
- Spree somehow convinced the Knicks to reduce his fine from 150,000 dollars to just 2,500 bucks…
- I was sitting at the bar, having a couple of quiet ones with a bloke I know only distantly, when a voice behind me said ‘Lend us five bucks.’
- If you don't want a full meal, you can get roti bread with satay sauce for five bucks.
PhrasesEasily and quickly earned money. 易得之财 the pursuit of a fast buck is the cause of most losses Example sentencesExamples - I urged everybody not to aim for the quick buck because any money you get will be slowly cancelled out by increased insurance premiums for almost everything!
- Plus, by sending our troops, we get to earn a quick buck on the side.
- The chance of earning a fast buck has given birth to a thriving souvenir industry on the streets around, selling stuff that ranges from the sympathetic to the sick.
- Sydney's harbour and many iconic sites are up for grabs because of the senseless pursuit of a fast buck, writes Paul Keating.
- Many people think that the book industry is just another racket out to make a quick buck by inflating prices and preying on readers' desire for good, cheap books.
- Investors saw an opportunity in snapping up new houses and apartments, seeing the opportunity for a quick buck as rents climbed sharply.
- What shocked them the second time was his avid pursuit of a quick buck through a share deal.
- Those who became landlords fairly recently, to make a fast buck from rising house prices, are most likely to panic.
- Perhaps he has never visited tourist attractions in the capital and elsewhere and seen the vendors of ice cream and hot dogs making a fast buck at the expense of tourists.
- Ultimately the show celebrates friendship, and the extraordinary lengths these ordinary men will go to earn a fast buck and restore pride in their lives.
- Senior executives believe investors will be carried away by exaggerated advertising and cash in on their pensions and homes in the hope of making a fast buck.
- However, analysts say there is no such thing as a quick buck to be earned in America and investors should be taking at least a 10-year view.
- I don't want to be forced into earning a quick buck.
- Governments hoping to earn a fast buck by switching off analogue television transmitters and selling the frequencies to cellphone operators are in for a shock.
- For the new government elite, it is a place to make a fast buck from reclaimed farms and misdirected aid money.
- But the facts speak for themselves - people are still out there in the dark risking their lives in pursuit of a quick buck.
- I do understand that times can be difficult for galleries and that they have to make money and the fast buck is tempting.
- No one would dispute the need to stop farmers attempting to evade planning regulations and make a fast buck by building expensive homes on green field sites.
- This is true because with poverty levels now at more than 80 per cent temptations for citizens to earn a quick buck become much harder to resist.
- These funds are not the domain of speculative, sophisticated individuals who put their money in for a quick buck.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. nounbəkbək An article placed as a reminder before a player whose turn it is to deal at poker. 培克（扑克牌戏中的一种用来提醒轮到某人发牌的标志） Example sentencesExamples - The "dealer" for a given hand will hold the dealer button, or buck. When the hand is completed, the button is passed to the player on the left.
- In Texas Hold 'Em a plastic puck or a buck (a silver dollar) rotates around the table to signify the dealer.
- Poker and politics have often been intertwined. Harry Truman had his own presidential poker chips, and the "buck" which stopped at his desk is also from the game.
Phrasesthe buck stops here (or with someone) informal The responsibility for something cannot or should not be passed to someone else. 〈非正式〉责任止于此 in the past you could spread the blame, but now the buck stops here Example sentencesExamples - Those people that are trying to shift focus should realize what Harry Truman said a long time ago, the buck stops here.
- Nor has he shown any inclination to properly organize his economic troops, or to deal with the fact that the buck stops with the chief executive.
- We are all to blame tonight, but I signed the players and I suppose the buck stops with me.
- ‘I'm the compliance officer, so you're right, the buck stops here in the end,’ she said.
- Surely the public is entitled to know, because the buck stops here, where the votes are.
- He's also willing, more often than not, to stand up and do a Harry Truman, take positions, and say the buck stops here.
- ‘Since we provide the funding and oversight for the agency, the buck stops here,’ said Mr. Hollings.
- ‘The controllers are all highly trained and they will handle all the aircraft passing through our airspace but, ultimately I am the general manager so the buck stops here’, he said.
- When the buck stops here - when you're responsible for the ultimate shareholder value - you've got to take 10 or 30 or 100 variables into consideration.
- He hasn't taken a leadership role to say, ‘Yes, the buck stops here.’
informal Shift the responsibility for something to someone else. 〈非正式〉责任止于此 elected political leaders cannot pass the buck for crisis decisions to any alternative source of authority Example sentencesExamples - It seems they keep on passing the buck - no one wants to accept responsibility.
- This is unfair and shows that a hidden tax is often a devious tax, especially when the Government passes the buck to local councils and then disclaims all responsibility for what is going on.
- The government can pass the buck to companies, and workers can abdicate all responsibility.
- But have any so breezily dodged responsibility and so glibly passed the buck?
- It seems to me that it is far easier to pass the buck than to take personal responsibility for our own actions.
- What is especially telling is the depiction of a bureaucracy unable to react, passing the buck and avoiding responsibility.
- I don't know if it's been chief and council passing the buck or the co-manager passing the buck.
- Have you ever noticed, ironically, that the folks who spend so much time talking about ‘responsibility’ are usually the first to try to pass the buck?
- Instead they have been engaged in the old game of passing the buck, and shifting all blame onto the civil service.
- It seems as if government departments are playing games with us, passing the buck from one minister to another.
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. |