| 单词 | herd |
| 释义 | herd (hɜːʳd ) Word forms: herds , herding , herded 1. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] A herd is a large group of animals of one kind that live together. ...large herds of elephant and buffalo. [+ of] ...dairy herds. Synonyms: flock, crowd, collection, mass 2. singular noun If you say that someone has joined the herd or follows the herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves. [disapproval] They are individuals; they will not follow the herd. Synonyms: mob, the masses, rabble, populace 3. verb If you herd people somewhere, you make them move there in a group. He began to herd the prisoners out. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] The group was herded into a bus. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Synonyms: lead, drive, force, direct 4. verb If you herd animals, you make them move along as a group. Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep. [VERB noun] A boy herded half a dozen camels down towards the water trough. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Synonyms: drive, lead, force, guide Idioms: ride herd on someone [US] to supervise other people or their actions or watch them closely His departure would undermine state efforts to ride herd on the oil companies. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: beef herd Payments would apply to up to 8 per cent of a producer's beef herd and 16 per cent of a dairy herd. Globe and Mail The remaining young stock will head to market in the spring to be replaced by a beef herd. The Sun Using a mixture of instruction manuals and the internet he channelled his energy into learning how to farm maize and cotton, as well as keeping a beef herd and bees. Times, Sunday Times The current operations include a large beef herd, a hay baling operation and an agri-forestry enterprise among others. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have both dairy and beef herds, producing some of the most tender, flavour-packed meat you'll ever eat and yoghurts stuffed with healthy omega-3s. Times, Sunday Times If, however, you were born in a township and have no inkling of how to herd cattle, your verbiosity gets honed on the football field. ST And do the important part — herd cattle. The Sun They already knew how to plant and cultivate rice, train horses, and herd cattle on horseback. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cowboys used the camp as a base from which to herd cattle and mend fences on the range. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are an active agricultural people and may also herd cattle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He had several wagons and a herd of horses. Times, Sunday Times A herd of horses were then driven into the same corral or threshing field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Infrastructure was continually upgraded with new stables for the growing herd of horses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each warrior would bring a small herd of horses with him (3 - 5 being average, but up to 20) as remounts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hall starts to disconnect and the walls start to disappear, only to show a herd of horses running through a field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Four hours after we set off, we swoop downhill, startling a herd of reindeer, into a clearing smelling sweetly of woodsmoke: lodge number two. Times, Sunday Times It was set up to protect the world's largest herd of reindeer as well as snow sheep. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He discovered it by following the tracks of an enormous herd of reindeer across frozen sea ice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are herds of reindeer populating the stands. Times, Sunday Times And there are herds of reindeer too, albeit in the form of tanned hides. Times,Sunday Times It felt like a herd of wildebeest stampeded across my back and had been careful not to avoid me. Times, Sunday Times It reminds me of a herd of wildebeest desperately keeping together while the predator circles. Times, Sunday Times Or a million-strong herd of wildebeest? Times, Sunday Times With the nutritious, mineral-rich ash layer, and some rain beginning to fall, the grass begins to grow again, prompting the return of herds of wildebeest and other prey. The Sun Go out on safari and watch herds of wildebeest sweeping across the prairie, or take a bracing mountain walk. Times, Sunday Times The group of farm workers were taken as they herded sheep, officials said. Times, Sunday Times (2016) I thought my son was killed by an airstrike as he herded the sheep. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They herded sheep, the alpha and omega of their cuisine. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Why not herd sheep at a crossroads? Times, Sunday Times (2008) Occasionally he and the others herd together and make rhythmic gestures, as if in the temporary grip of some primal folk boogie. Times, Sunday Times This incentivises managers to herd together, taking the same decisions. Times, Sunday Times These footballers, however, invited to dribble around a coned area and display their skills, herd together in one corner, keeping it simple. Times, Sunday Times There was a crowd of people herded together and blocked in now. Times, Sunday Times The cast, in costumes blending pale hues with charcoal grey, herded together in a tight but restless clump only to suddenly disperse like birds in flight. Times, Sunday Times By the late 1880s, the huge herds of bison had virtually disappeared. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Huge herds of ceratopsids roamed the floodplains alongside equally large groups of hadrosaurine and lambeosaurine hadrosaurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Huge herds of elk, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat roam the region's rugged peaks, big river valleys, large meadows, and vast coniferous forests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the smaller, wilder stretches of a river, rafts couldn't get through, so masses of individual logs were driven down the river like huge herds of cattle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he specialised in the presentation of the family's very large herd of elephants. Times, Sunday Times As the story goes, a railroad official looked out the window of a train car and saw a large herd of cattle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The group frantically flees from a large herd of undead until they hear a voice calling them to an apartment building. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today, these potreros are used in this manner by a large herd of elk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It turned into a large herd of eland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its large livestock herd reportedly ate everything to within an inch of the ground. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Further analysis of the areas also shows that the inhabitants were agro-pastoralists, meaning that they mixed agricultural practices with livestock herding practices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the centuries, use of organic fertilizers also increased with the growth in population and with the increased size of livestock herds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to agriculture, the villagers engage extensively in livestock herding, consisting mainly of cattle, sheep, and goats. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Outstanding livestock herds were established and research with pastures, grain crops, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables was expanded. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A small herd always seems to be wandering round the town and strolling along the shoreline. Times, Sunday Times I spotted a small herd of deer grazing on the sandy soil. Smithsonian The collective insight and wisdom gathered here reveals the small herd of elephants in the adaptation room. Times,Sunday Times Ghostly but impervious, shyly defiant; a fold in the hill suddenly yields a small herd of wild horses. Times, Sunday Times He had moved into breeding a small herd of red deer only a year ago and still kept a flock of pedigree sheep. Times, Sunday Times It will also require greater advances in artificial meat and milk so vast herds no longer encroach on forests and other natural habitats. Times,Sunday Times We watched vast herds of them crossing a river as crocodiles tried to pick them off. Times, Sunday Times With vast herds and lots of livelihoods at stake, a few pounds here and there add up fast. The Scientist Gazelle was hunted primarily during the summer, when vast herds passed by the village during their annual migration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first group were fully nomadic, following the vast herds of buffalo. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the whole herd gets involved, infidelity on such a grand scale seems unlikely. Times, Sunday Times He explained this just as we topped out on the col - and were confronted by a whole herd of ibex, basking in the afternoon sun. Times, Sunday Times Show an elephant a mouse and it will carry on regardless, but angry bees could drive a whole herd to run away. Times, Sunday Times And it's more exciting than a whole herd of free-range organic piglets, raised on molasses, skewered and barbecued. Times, Sunday Times Then a whole herd came through. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 兽群, 兽群 Japanese: 群れ, 誘導する |
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