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calf

/kæf/ 名词 B1

中文: 小牛、犊、牛犊、仔

  1. A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
  2. Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
  3. The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
  4. A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
  5. A small island, near a larger island.
  6. A cabless railroad engine.
  7. An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. (dated, informal)

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When he thought of that rapt light being quenched in her eyes he had an uncomfortable feeling that he was going to assist at murdering something--much the same feeling that came over him when he had to kill a lamb or calf or any other innocent little creature.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第29页 · C1
## The Bull and the Calf
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第62页 · B2
A young Calf came up, and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第62页 · B2
I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第22页 · C1

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