herd
herd 英 [hɜ:d] 美 [hɜrd]
n. 兽群，畜群；放牧人 vi. 成群，聚在一起 vt. 放牧；使成群
进行时:herding 过去式:herded 过去分词:herded 第三人称单数:herds 名词复数:herds
- A herd is a bunch of animals — or people who act like a bunch of animals. It's also a verb — when people herd animals, they try to keep them moving in the same direction.
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- n. 兽群，畜群；放牧人
- vi. 成群，聚在一起
- vt. 放牧；使成群
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1. Wild geese herd to the south in autumn every year.
每年秋天大雁都成群结队地飞往南方。
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2. That night, as on every night in Argentina, we dined in a fine restaurant and ate an entire herd of cattle.
像在阿根廷的每个夜晚一样，当天夜里我们在一家精美的餐馆用餐，差不多吃掉了一群牛。
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3. As I understand it, people are influenced by the people around them. That we act, like buffalo, in a herd.
就我理解，人都会受到周围人群的影响，我们的行动就好像牛群中的一头牛一样。
- herd (n.1) Old English heord "herd, flock, company of domestic animals," also, rarely, "a keeping, care, custody," from Proto-Germanic *herdo (source also of Old Norse hjorð, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda "herd"), from PIE *kerdh- "a row, group, herd" (source also of Sanskrit śárdhah "herd, troop," Old Church Slavonic čreda "herd," Greek korthys "heap," Lithuanian kerdžius "shepherd"). Of any animals, wild or domestic, from c. 1200; of people, often in a disparaging sense, from c. 1400. Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1886.
- herd (n.2) "keeper of a flock of domestic animals," Old English hierde, from the source of herd (v.). Now obsolete except in compounds. Compare Old Saxon hirdi, Middle Dutch hirde, German Hirte, Old Norse hirðir.
- herd (v.) mid-13c., "to watch over or herd (livestock);" of animals, "gather in a herd, go in a herd, form a flock," late 14c. From herd (n.1). Transitive sense of "to form (animals, people, etc.) into a herd" is from 1590s. Related: Herded; herding.
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