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nounasæs 1An animal of the horse family, which is typically smaller than a horse and has longer ears and a braying call. 驴 Genus Equus, family Equidae: E. africanus of Africa, which is the ancestor of the domestic ass or donkey, and E. hemionus of Asia Example sentencesExamples - Such animals include horses, ponies, mules, asses and donkeys, elephants, camels, reindeer, buffaloes, oxen or bullocks, yaks and zebus.
- Drivers bawled for the right of way; asses brayed them down.
- Similarly, one ‘kind’ was likely ancestral to the various types of horses, zebras and asses.
- Wild asses average 200 cm in body length, 45 cm in tail length, 125 cm at the shoulder, and weight 250 kg.
- He says quite calmly and simply, ‘It lets asses cross, it lets horses cross.’
- In captivity, Asian wild asses have lived for 26 years.
- Photographer Pete Oxford watches out for wolves, wild asses and dinosaur fossils in Mongolia.
- Wild horses and asses were hunted for food and for sport before becoming domesticated.
- In comparison with other Asiatic wild asses, E. onager is slightly smaller with a paler coat.
- Domesticated donkeys can be bred at any time of year, wild asses generally breed in the wet season.
- The scientists have deduced that the ass is the only hoofed livestock species domesticated exclusively in Africa.
- This family, made up of the horses, asses and zebras, contains one genus with nine species.
- The species probably occupied rather dry, shrub-covered grasslands as suggested by the range of living wild asses and also by the frequency of rootlet impressions on the surfaces of many of the fossil bones.
- Other desert animals, including wild sheep, Tibetan ass, and goitered gazelle, also stand to benefit.
- Here is a reference book for those who can't tell an ass from a burro.
- All domestic asses, or donkeys, are descendants of wild asses from Africa and Asia.
- Today only seven species of wild equids remain - three asses, three zebra and one wild horse - and IUCN-The World Conservation Union now lists most of these as endangered.
Synonyms donkey jackass, jenny Scottish cuddy British informal moke, neddy - 1.1 (in general use) a donkey.
（普通用语）毛驴 Example sentencesExamples - The asses and mules, their loads cast aside for the day, stood idle everywhere in the fields, munching at the parched grass and flinching from flies on a hot summer afternoon.
- Well it looked like it was going to be a three-horse race, but in the end it was a contest between a horse, a mule and an ass.
- The milk of an ass, a mare, or a goat was put into a leather bag or skin and, tightly closed, this was then suspended beneath the belly of a horse.
- But did Avraham sell Sara to an imperial Pharaoh in exchange for sheep, cattle, donkeys, servants, maids, asses, and camels?!
- Therefore, it was necessary for God to show himself to them and gather them to himself, as he did when he commanded the ass and its colt to be untied and brought to him and took his seat on them according to the law of truth.
- We stepped off the trail to let her, her horse and the pack-laden ass that was bringing up the rear go by.
- Animals covered include horses, donkeys, asses, cattle, camels, pigs, goats, and sheep, with the most extensive tradition covering the larger species.
- Of course, back then, travel was done on foot, or with an ass or a horse.
- Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!
- Livestock means cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats, poultry, and deer not in the wild state.
- The evidence of their endeavours is still apparent, with most of the island made over to vast salt-pans and great gatherings of feral asses, descendants of those donkeys that pulled the salt carts.
- Need I remind you gentlemen, that an ass is a donkey.
2British informal A foolish or stupid person. 〈非正式〉傻瓜，蠢人 那个傻瓜年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact, I'll go further than that: the reason why it's legitimate to gull people like him into making silly asses of themselves on television is that, in a very important sense, they aren't real at all.
- The fact might well be forgotten, but there are stupid asses who will not let us forget it.
- It is so transparent to sophisticated eyes, and yet those asses in Rawson Square bought it hook, line and sinker.
- The prospective bridegroom is a silly ass, the best man is a cad and the escort is a bore - so much for the men.
- They are seen for the foolish bunch of asses that they are.
- I can't get an intelligent word out of the silly ass and he's going berserk.
- Jockeys have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons - too many silly asses have dropped their hands, and lost placings as a result.
- The silly ass asked the electors: ‘Who governs Britain?’
Synonyms fool, nincompoop, clown, dolt, simpleton informal idiot, ninny, dope, dimwit, chump, goon, dumbo, dummy, halfwit, dum-dum, loon, jackass, cretin, imbecile, jerk, nerd, fathead, blockhead, numbskull, dunderhead, dunce, dipstick, bonehead, chucklehead, clod, goop, knucklehead, lamebrain, pea-brain, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, pinhead, airhead, birdbrain, dumb-bell, donkey, stupe, noodle British informal nit, nitwit, twit, numpty, clot, plonker, berk, prat, pillock, wally, git, wazzock, divvy, nerk, dork, twerp, charlie, mug, muppet Scottish informal nyaff, balloon, sumph, gowk Irish informal gobdaw North American informal schmuck, bozo, boob, lamer, turkey, schlepper, chowderhead, dumbhead, goofball, goof, goofus, galoot, lummox, klutz, putz, schlemiel, sap, meatball, gink, cluck, clunk, ding-dong, dingbat, wiener, weeny, dip, simp, spud, coot, palooka, poop, squarehead, yo-yo, dingleberry Australian/New Zealand informal drongo, dill, alec, galah, nong, bogan, poon, boofhead South African informal mompara British vulgar slang knobhead North American vulgar slang asshat dated tomfool, muttonhead, noddy archaic clodpole, loggerhead, spoony, mooncalf
Phrasesinformal Behave in a way that makes one look foolish or stupid. 〈非正式〉出洋相，闹笑话，做蠢事 I made an awful ass of myself Example sentencesExamples - The party that claimed to stand for the bigger citizen and the smaller state made an ass of itself.
- After all I'm probably just as likely to make an ass of myself in the virtual world as the real one.
- I'm pretty sure Jessica holds her liquor better than I hold mine, because I distinctly remember making an ass of myself twice in her presence, and her not even one time at all.
- It's being shown so that millions of viewers can laugh at this bossy boss making an ass of himself.
- He took a stand and said the money wasn't worth making an ass of himself over.
- I made an ass of myself at ye olde Hackney tavern on Friday night, drinking stupid amounts & flirting inappropriately with anyone who crossed my path.
- Somewhere behind it all, however, lies the splendid and irrepressible urge to get up in public and risk making an ass of yourself for the sake of art.
- Meanwhile, we should be grown up enough to forgive the fact that from time to time he may make an ass of himself.
- For too long Clarke has been making an ass of himself through insensitive comments and immature behaviour.
- We are not all mad violent alcoholics or binge drinkers whose only form of entertainment consists of trying to enter pubs in the hope of getting very drunk and making an ass of ourselves!
OriginOld English assa, from a Celtic word related to Welsh asyn, Breton azen, based on Latin asinus. arse from Old English: Like bum, arse was not originally a rude slang word. It dates back to before 1000 in English, and is connected to various old German and Scandinavian forms that were probably linked to Greek orros ‘the rump or bottom’. Arse was perfectly respectable until the 17th century. To go arse over tip (the original form, rather than tit) and not know your arse from your elbow are first found in the early 20th century. My arse! as a derisive comment is first recorded in the 1920s, though all these expressions are probably older. The American spelling is ass, which is nothing to do with ass meaning ‘donkey’. The latter is from an Old English word that is related to easel and goes back to Latin asinus, as in asinine (Late Middle English) or stupid. See also wheat
Rhymesalas, Alsace, amass, Bass, chasse, crass, crevasse, en masse, gas, Hamas, lass, mass, morass, sass, tarantass, tass, wrasse nounasæs North American vulgar slang 1A person's buttocks or anus. 〈美，粗俚〉屁股；肛门 - 1.1 Women regarded as a source of sexual gratification.
被视为性交对象的女人 - 1.2one's ass Oneself (used in phrases for emphasis)
在词组中表强调自己 get your ass in here fast 你快点到这里来。 the bureaucrat who wants everything in writing so as to cover his ass 那个要求一切事情都有书面记录以保护自己的官僚。
Phrasesvulgar slang Try very hard to do something. 十分努力地做某事
bust (or whip) someone's ass vulgar slang Beat someone in a fight or contest.
vulgar slang Reprimand someone severely. 严厉地责备
get your ass in (or into) gear vulgar slang in imperativeHurry. 赶快，赶紧 if you get your ass in gear, you can make it out of here tonight 如果你赶快，你今晚就能从这儿搬出去。
vulgar slang Stop being lazy.
haul (or drag or tear) ass vulgar slang Hurry or move fast. 赶快，赶紧；快速移动 I just turn around and haul ass right out of there
vulgar slang Used to convey that one does not believe something that has just been said.
not give (or care) a rat's ass vulgar slang Not care at all about something. 一点都不关心
not know one's ass from a hole in the ground vulgar slang Be totally ignorant or incompetent.
put (or have) someone's (or one's) ass in a sling vulgar slang Get someone (or oneself) into trouble. 使某人遇上麻烦
vulgar slang Used to express contempt for someone or something.
vulgar slang You can be very sure. 你可以绝对肯定 with clause you can bet your ass I'll go for it every time 你放心好了，我会自始至终大力争取的。
Derivativesadjectiveastæst 1North American vulgar slang in combination (of a person) having buttocks of a specified kind. 大屁股的家伙们。 Example sentencesExamples - these lazy-assed people
- a big-assed video screen
- a silly-assed idea
2Having or displaying a specified quality to an extreme degree.
OriginMid 19th century: variant of arse. nounasæs 1An animal of the horse family, which is typically smaller than a horse and has longer ears and a braying call. 驴 Genus Equus, family Equidae: E. africanus of Africa, which is the ancestor of the domestic ass or donkey, and E. hemionus of Asia Example sentencesExamples - All domestic asses, or donkeys, are descendants of wild asses from Africa and Asia.
- Drivers bawled for the right of way; asses brayed them down.
- Such animals include horses, ponies, mules, asses and donkeys, elephants, camels, reindeer, buffaloes, oxen or bullocks, yaks and zebus.
- The scientists have deduced that the ass is the only hoofed livestock species domesticated exclusively in Africa.
- Wild horses and asses were hunted for food and for sport before becoming domesticated.
- The species probably occupied rather dry, shrub-covered grasslands as suggested by the range of living wild asses and also by the frequency of rootlet impressions on the surfaces of many of the fossil bones.
- Similarly, one ‘kind’ was likely ancestral to the various types of horses, zebras and asses.
- Domesticated donkeys can be bred at any time of year, wild asses generally breed in the wet season.
- Wild asses average 200 cm in body length, 45 cm in tail length, 125 cm at the shoulder, and weight 250 kg.
- In captivity, Asian wild asses have lived for 26 years.
- In comparison with other Asiatic wild asses, E. onager is slightly smaller with a paler coat.
- Photographer Pete Oxford watches out for wolves, wild asses and dinosaur fossils in Mongolia.
- Other desert animals, including wild sheep, Tibetan ass, and goitered gazelle, also stand to benefit.
- Here is a reference book for those who can't tell an ass from a burro.
- This family, made up of the horses, asses and zebras, contains one genus with nine species.
- Today only seven species of wild equids remain - three asses, three zebra and one wild horse - and IUCN-The World Conservation Union now lists most of these as endangered.
- He says quite calmly and simply, ‘It lets asses cross, it lets horses cross.’
- 1.1 (in general use) a donkey.
（普通用语）毛驴 Example sentencesExamples - Livestock means cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats, poultry, and deer not in the wild state.
- The milk of an ass, a mare, or a goat was put into a leather bag or skin and, tightly closed, this was then suspended beneath the belly of a horse.
- Animals covered include horses, donkeys, asses, cattle, camels, pigs, goats, and sheep, with the most extensive tradition covering the larger species.
- Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!
- The evidence of their endeavours is still apparent, with most of the island made over to vast salt-pans and great gatherings of feral asses, descendants of those donkeys that pulled the salt carts.
- But did Avraham sell Sara to an imperial Pharaoh in exchange for sheep, cattle, donkeys, servants, maids, asses, and camels?!
- Need I remind you gentlemen, that an ass is a donkey.
- We stepped off the trail to let her, her horse and the pack-laden ass that was bringing up the rear go by.
- Of course, back then, travel was done on foot, or with an ass or a horse.
- The asses and mules, their loads cast aside for the day, stood idle everywhere in the fields, munching at the parched grass and flinching from flies on a hot summer afternoon.
- Well it looked like it was going to be a three-horse race, but in the end it was a contest between a horse, a mule and an ass.
- Therefore, it was necessary for God to show himself to them and gather them to himself, as he did when he commanded the ass and its colt to be untied and brought to him and took his seat on them according to the law of truth.
2British informal A foolish or stupid person. 〈非正式〉傻瓜，蠢人 那个傻瓜年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact, I'll go further than that: the reason why it's legitimate to gull people like him into making silly asses of themselves on television is that, in a very important sense, they aren't real at all.
- They are seen for the foolish bunch of asses that they are.
- The prospective bridegroom is a silly ass, the best man is a cad and the escort is a bore - so much for the men.
- The fact might well be forgotten, but there are stupid asses who will not let us forget it.
- The silly ass asked the electors: ‘Who governs Britain?’
- I can't get an intelligent word out of the silly ass and he's going berserk.
- It is so transparent to sophisticated eyes, and yet those asses in Rawson Square bought it hook, line and sinker.
- Jockeys have been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons - too many silly asses have dropped their hands, and lost placings as a result.
Synonyms fool, nincompoop, clown, dolt, simpleton
Phrasesinformal Behave in a way that makes one look foolish or stupid. 〈非正式〉出洋相，闹笑话，做蠢事 he is stewed and about to make an ass of himself Example sentencesExamples - I'm pretty sure Jessica holds her liquor better than I hold mine, because I distinctly remember making an ass of myself twice in her presence, and her not even one time at all.
- I made an ass of myself at ye olde Hackney tavern on Friday night, drinking stupid amounts & flirting inappropriately with anyone who crossed my path.
- Meanwhile, we should be grown up enough to forgive the fact that from time to time he may make an ass of himself.
- He took a stand and said the money wasn't worth making an ass of himself over.
- After all I'm probably just as likely to make an ass of myself in the virtual world as the real one.
- The party that claimed to stand for the bigger citizen and the smaller state made an ass of itself.
- We are not all mad violent alcoholics or binge drinkers whose only form of entertainment consists of trying to enter pubs in the hope of getting very drunk and making an ass of ourselves!
- It's being shown so that millions of viewers can laugh at this bossy boss making an ass of himself.
- Somewhere behind it all, however, lies the splendid and irrepressible urge to get up in public and risk making an ass of yourself for the sake of art.
- For too long Clarke has been making an ass of himself through insensitive comments and immature behaviour.
OriginOld English assa, from a Celtic word related to Welsh asyn, Breton azen, based on Latin asinus. nounasæs North American vulgar slang 1A person's buttocks or anus. 〈美，粗俚〉屁股；肛门 - 1.1 Women regarded as a source of sexual gratification.
被视为性交对象的女人 - 1.2one's ass Oneself (used in phrases for emphasis)
在词组中表强调自己 get your ass in here fast 你快点到这里来。 the bureaucrat who wants everything in writing so as to cover his ass 那个要求一切事情都有书面记录以保护自己的官僚。
Phrasesvulgar slang Try very hard to do something. 十分努力地做某事
bust (or whip) someone's ass vulgar slang Beat someone in a fight or contest.
vulgar slang Reprimand someone severely. 严厉地责备
get your ass in (or into) gear vulgar slang in imperativeHurry. 赶快，赶紧 if you get your ass in gear, you can make it out of here tonight 如果你赶快，你今晚就能从这儿搬出去。
vulgar slang Stop being lazy.
haul (or drag or tear) ass vulgar slang Hurry or move fast. 赶快，赶紧；快速移动 I just turn around and haul ass right out of there
vulgar slang Used to convey that one does not believe something that has just been said.
not give (or care) a rat's ass vulgar slang Not care at all about something. 一点都不关心
not know one's ass from a hole in the ground vulgar slang Be totally ignorant or incompetent.
put (or have) someone's (or one's) ass in a sling vulgar slang Get someone (or oneself) into trouble. 使某人遇上麻烦
vulgar slang Used to express contempt for someone or something.
vulgar slang You can be very sure. 你可以绝对肯定 with clause you can bet your ass I'll go for it every time 你放心好了，我会自始至终大力争取的。
OriginMid 19th century: variant of arse. |