单词 | lamb |
释义 | Word Frequency lamb(læm) noun 1. the young of a sheep 2. the meat of a young sheep 3. a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc 4. a person easily deceived 5. like a lamb to the slaughter verb 6. Also: lamb down (intransitive) (of a ewe) to give birth 7. (tr; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born 8. (intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time Derived forms lamblike (ˈlambˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lambWord Frequency Lamb 1(læm) noun the Lamb Word Frequency Lamb 2(læm) noun 1. Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833) 2. William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne2 3. Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (Lamb shift). Nobel prize for physics 1955 |
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