calves

英 [kɑːvz]

美 [kævz]

n.  腓; 小腿肚; 小牛; 牛犊; (象、鲸等的)崽，幼兽
calf的复数; calve的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 产犊;生小牛
  When a cowcalves, it gives birth to a calf.
  1. When his cows calve each year he keeps one or two calves for his family.
     他的母牛每年产犊时,他都给自家留上一两头。
• VERB (象、鲸等)产崽
  Some other female animals, including elephants and whales, are said tocalvewhen they give birth to their young.
  1. The whales migrate some 6,000 miles to breed and calve in the warm lagoons.
     鲸会迁移6,000海里左右,到温暖的环礁湖生殖繁衍。
• （calf 的复数）
  Calvesis the plural ofcalf.

双语例句

• The imported cows have given birth to their first calves.
  这些进口的母牛已经产下了第一批牛犊。
• He lay stretched out on the bed; stretched her calves before running.
  他伸直了躺在床上；在起跑之前她伸了伸小腿。
• The children saw the new seal calves at the zoo.
  孩子们在动物园看到了新生的小海豹。
• To keep a cow, so that it can bear calves;
  养只母牛，它会生犊；
• This phenomenon has been found in calves infected with parainfluenza 3 virus.
  这种现象曾见于感染副流感3型病毒的犊牛。
• The big muscles in her thighs and calves ripple seductively when she walks.
  当她走路时她大腿和小腿上的肌肉纹理散发着诱惑力。
• Being torn underwater can cause problems for newborn whale and dolphin calves.
  对新生鲸鱼和海豚幼崽而言，在水下出生会引起一些问题。
• [ 谚] Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers--young people are fearless.
  初生牛犊不怕虎。
• We watched the cow suckling her calves.
  我们看了奶牛如何给小牛喂奶。
• The price of cereals and the price of calves at the present moment has virtually sounded the death kneel of barley beef production.
  日前的谷物价格和牛犊价格实际上已经敲响了用大麦生产牛肉的丧钟。