calve
小牛
常用释义
英音[ kɑːv ]
美音[ kæv ]
变形
第三人称单数:
calves
现在分词:
calving
过去式:
calved
过去分词:
calved
基本释义
- vt. 下仔；生小牛；使崩解
- vi. 生小牛；下仔；崩解
- n. （Calve）人名；（西、意）卡尔韦；（法）卡尔夫
例句
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1·When his cows calve each year he keeps one or two calves for his family.每年他的母牛产犊时，他都为家里留下一两头。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·The whales migrate some 6,000 miles to breed and calve in the warm lagoons.这种鲸鱼环游了6,000英里到暖水湖里生育繁殖。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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3·The cow is expected to calve next week.这头母牛预期下周生小牛。
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4·The icebergs and glaciers calve .冰山和冰川在瓦解。
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5·The whales calve at this time of year.鲸鱼在每年的这个时候产仔。
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6·Can you mark the time when the hinds calve?母鹿下犊之期你能察出吗？
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7·The unusual tides caused glaciers to calve icebergs off Greenland.这种不寻常的潮汐使得格陵兰的冰川崩裂成冰山。
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8·Dairy cows must calve every year to keep producing milk, and only half their offspring will be female.奶牛必须每年哺乳才能产生牛奶，生下的小牛中只有一半是母牛。
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9·The February 2011 earthquake provided the final pulse of energy to calve off ice than had been about to break off anyway.2011年2月这次地震的发生，是这处于消融中的冰川最终走向崩解的一个转折。
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10·A flotilla of icebergs, some as jagged as fairytale castles and others as smooth as dinosaur eggs, calve from the ice sheet that smothers Greenland and sail down the fjords.一队队冰块从覆盖格陵兰的冰盖上崩裂下来，有的像童话中的城堡一样凹凸不平，有的似恐龙蛋般光滑，它们沿着峡湾滑行而下。
同根词
词根：
calf
calved
adj
有小腿肚的；有腓部的
calf
n
[解剖] 腓肠，小腿；小牛；小牛皮
calving
n
产犊；裂冰作用
calved
v
产犊（calve的过去式及过去分词）
calving
v
产犊；崩解（calve的ing形式）