bull
bull 英 [bʊl] 美 [bʊl]
n. 公牛；看好股市者；粗壮如牛的人；胡说八道；印玺 adj. 大型的；公牛似的；雄性的 vt. 企图抬高证券价格；吓唬；强力实现
进行时:bulling 过去式:bulled 过去分词:bulled 第三人称单数:bulls 名词复数:bulls
- A bull is a male cow. You can usually tell which animal in a pasture is a bull by its large size and horns.
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- n. 公牛；看好股市者；粗壮如牛的人；胡说八道；印玺
- adj. 大型的；公牛似的；雄性的
- vt. 企图抬高证券价格；吓唬；强力实现
- vi. 价格上涨；走运；猛推；吹牛
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1. A bullock is a castrated bull.
阉牛是切除了睾丸的公牛。
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2. He was tossed by the bull.
他被这头公牛用角挑了起来。
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3. He glared at me like a bull at a red rag.
他像公牛怒视红布一样对我怒目而视。
- bull (n.1) "male of a bovine animal," c. 1200, bule, from Old Norse boli "bull, male of the domestic bovine," perhaps also from an Old English *bula, both from Proto-Germanic *bullon- (source also of Middle Dutch bulle, Dutch bul, German Bulle), perhaps from a Germanic verbal stem meaning "to roar," which survives in some German dialects and perhaps in the first element of boulder (q.v.). The other possibility [Watkins] is that the Germanic word is from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell."
- bull (n.2) "papal edict, highest authoritative document issued by or in the name of a pope," c. 1300, from Medieval Latin bulla "sealed document" (source of Old French bulle, Italian bulla), originally the word for the seal itself, from Latin bulla "round swelling, knob," said ultimately to be from Gaulish, from PIE *beu-, a root supposed to have formed words associated with swelling (source also of Lithuanian bulė "buttocks," Middle Dutch puyl "bag," also possibly Latin bucca "cheek").
- bull (n.3) "insincere, trifling, or deceptive talk," 1914. Popularly associated with roughly contemporary bullshit (n.) in the same sense, and in modern use often felt as a shortened form of it. There seems to have been an identical Middle English word meaning "false talk, fraud," apparently from Old French bole "deception, trick, scheming, intrigue," and perhaps related to modern Icelandic bull "nonsense."
- bull (v.) "push through roughly," 1884, from bull (n.1). Related: Bulled; bulling.
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