herds

英 [hɜːdz]

美 [hɜːrdz]

n.  兽群; 牧群; 人群; 芸芸众生
v.  (使)向…移动; 牧放(牲畜、兽群)
herd的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 兽群;畜群
  Aherdis a large group of animals of one kind that live together.
  1. ...large herds of elephant and buffalo.
     大群的大象和水牛
  2. ...dairy herds.
     奶牛群
• N-SING （缺乏独立思想的）一般民众，芸芸众生
  If you say that someone has joinedthe herdor followsthe herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves.
  1. They are individuals; they will not follow the herd.
     他们是独立的个体，不愿随大溜。
• VERB 使集在一起;把…赶在一起
  If youherdpeople somewhere, you make them move there in a group.
  1. He began to herd the prisoners out...
     他开始将犯人集中在一起赶出来。
  2. The group was herded into a bus.
     这群人被赶上了一辆公共汽车。
• VERB 驱赶，牧放（畜群）
  If youherdanimals, you make them move along as a group.
  1. Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep...
     斯特凡诺骑一辆摩托车放羊。
  2. A boy herded half a dozen camels down towards the water trough.
     一个男孩赶着6头骆驼朝饮水槽走去。

双语例句

• South America has produced the world's most spectacular successes with commercial water buffalo herds.
  在培育商业性水牛群方面，世界上要数南美洲的成就最为可观。
• He advised them to take the herds up into the mountain forest, far from the dangerous farm lands.
  他建议他们把鹿群带到山上的森林里去，远离危险的农庄田地。
• Zebras roam in herds ( 2), or groups, grazing on grass and leaves.
  斑马成群地，或成队地，自由自在地走来走去，吃草和树叶。
• Herds are fattening on the early clover.
  家畜吃早春的苜蓿而上膘。
• To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
  为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。
• Great herds of buffalo migrated across the plains.
  大群野牛迁徙过平原。
• Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture.
  每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
• I recently met with the Maasai people, an indigenous ethnic group who rely on their herds – mostly of cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys – for their food and for their income.
  最近我遇见一些Maasai人，他们是生活于肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的土着少数民族，以牧养牛、羊、山羊和驴子为生，这些牲畜就是他们的食物和收入来源。
• To protect themselves, deer gather together in large herds.
  为了保护自己，鹿常常大群大群地聚集在一起。
• National Guard helicopters are dropping tons of hay to cattle herds that had been stranded in heavy snow drifts.
  国家警卫队直升飞机正在向由于大雪被困的牲畜群扔下数顿干草。