swine
swine 英 [swaɪn] 美 [swaɪn]
n. 猪；卑贱的人
名词复数:swines
- A swine is a pig or a big ol’ nasty hog. Swine have short legs, thick bodies, and they eat just about anything. If someone acts like a pig, call him a swine.
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- n. 猪；卑贱的人
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1. Now that the swine flu scare seems to have died down, does this mean we all overreacted?
猪流感恐慌似乎已渐渐平息，那么这是否意味着我们都反应过度了呢？
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2. I have family and friends who have had swine flu, though I doubt if they appear in the figures.
我有得过猪流感的家人和朋友，虽然我怀疑是否他们出现在统计数据中。
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3. However, even in the early days of the outbreak, not everyone with swine flu will have visited their GP.
然而，即使是在爆发早期，也做不到每一个猪流感病人都能拜访他们的家庭医生。
- swine (n.) Old English swin "pig, hog, wild boar," from Proto-Germanic *swinan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian Middle Low German, Old High German swin, Middle Dutch swijn, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish svin), neuter adjective (with suffix *-ino-) from PIE *su- "pig" (see sow (n.)). The native word, largely ousted by pig. Applied to persons from late 14c. Phrase pearls before swine (mid-14c.) is from Matthew vii.6; an early English formation of it was:
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