(past participle shorn或sheared)
1
- with obj. cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)剪（羊或其他动物的）毛。
1.1
- cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears剪; 剪割：
I'll shear off all that fleece.
我要把所有羊毛剪下。
1.2
be shorn of
have something cut off把…剪下：they were shorn of their hair
他们被剪光了头发
figurative 〈喻〉the richest man in the US was shorn of nearly $2 billion.
美国最有钱的富翁损失了近20亿美元。
2
- break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain（受剪切力作用而）断裂; 切变：
no obj. the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel自行车的换挡齿轮断裂, 卡住了后轮。
with obj. the left wing had been almost completely sheared off.左翼几乎完全被折断了。
mass noun
- a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other切变; 剪应力。参见WIND SHEAR.
USAGE
The two verbs shear and sheer are sometimes confused:see usage at SHEER2.
派生词
shearer
noun词源
Old English sceran （originally in the sense 'cut through with a weapon'）, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning 'divide, shear, shave'.