calve
calve 英 [kɑ:v] 美 [kæv]
vt. 下仔；生小牛；使崩解 vi. 生小牛；下仔；崩解
进行时:calving 过去式:calved 过去分词:calved 第三人称单数:calve 名词复数:calves
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- vt. 下仔；生小牛；使崩解
- vi. 生小牛；下仔；崩解
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1. Dairy cows must calve every year to keep producing milk, and only half their offspring will be female.
奶牛必须每年哺乳才能产生牛奶，生下的小牛中只有一半是母牛。
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2. The February 2011 earthquake provided the final pulse of energy to calve off ice than had been about to break off anyway.
2011年2月这次地震的发生，是这处于消融中的冰川最终走向崩解的一个转折。
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3. A flotilla of icebergs, some as jagged as fairytale castles and others as smooth as dinosaur eggs, calve from the ice sheet that smothers Greenland and sail down the fjords.
一队队冰块从覆盖格陵兰的冰盖上崩裂下来，有的像童话中的城堡一样凹凸不平，有的似恐龙蛋般光滑，它们沿着峡湾滑行而下。
- calve (v.) "to bring forth a calf or calves," Old English cealfian, from cealf "calf" (see calf (n.1)). Of glaciers, "to lose a portion by an iceberg breaking off," 1837. Related: Calved; calving.
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