stallion
stallion 英 [ˈstæliən] 美 [ˈstæljən]
n. 种马；成年公马
名词复数:stallions
- While the word stallion most often means "male horse," you can also call donkeys and zebras (as well as other horse relatives) stallions.
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- n. 种马；成年公马
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1. The rich man rode a stallion, and the poor brother a young mare.
富人骑着一匹大种马，穷人则骑着一匹小雌马。
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2. For Britain's Prince Charles and his second wife Camilla, the answer is jewels, carpets, an Arabian stallion -- and a shopping bag.
比如，送礼给查尔斯王储和他的第二任妻子卡米拉，就可以选择珠宝、地毯、阿拉伯种马和购物袋。
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3. The next morning we wake tothe thump of hooves. A semiwild stallion paws the ground andlooks at us suspiciously while his herd grazes behind him.
第二天清晨我们被沉闷的蹄声惊醒，一只半野生的种马一面用蹄子敲着地面一面用怀疑的眼神看着我们，它的族群正在它身后吃草。
- stallion (n.) mid-15c., earlier staloun (c. 1300), "male horse kept for breeding purposes," from Anglo-French estaloun, Old French estalon "stallion, uncastrated male horse" (Modern French étalon), from Frankish *stal, cognate with Old High German stal "stable," from Proto-Germanic *stalla- (see stall (n.1)). The notion is probably of a horse kept in a stable to service mares. Transferred sense of "robustly lascivious man" is attested from 1550s.
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