cattle
cattle 英 [ˈkætl] 美 [ˈkætl]
n. 牛
名词复数:cattle
- Use the word cattle to talk about a group of cows. A farmer might build a new fence to keep her cattle more safely secured in their pasture.
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- n. 牛
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1. a herd of cattle
一群牛
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2. twenty head of cattle (= twenty cows)
二十头牛
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3. dairy cattle, beef cattle
乳╱菜牛
- cattle (n.) mid-13c., "property" of any kind, including money, land, income; from Anglo-French catel "property" (Old North French catel, Old French chatel), from Medieval Latin capitale "property, stock," noun use of neuter of Latin adjective capitalis "principal, chief," literally "of the head," from caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). Compare sense development of fee, pecuniary.
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