sheep-shank
英语词源
- sheep-shank (n.)
- also sheepshank, 1670s, "leg of a sheep," from sheep + shank (n.). A type of something lank, slender, or weak. Attested earlier in transferred sense of "type of sailor's knot used to shorten a rope without cutting it" (1620s).
权威例句
- 1. She mispronounced ship as sheep.
- 她把ship念成sheep了.
- 2. 'ship " doesn't rhyme with'sheep ".
- Ship 和 sheep 不押韵.
- 3. The first task was to fence the wood to exclude sheep.
- 第一项任务就是把树林围起来不让羊进去。
- 4. Every summer the shepherds drive the sheep up to pasture.
- 每年夏天牧羊人都将羊群赶到牧场去。
- 5. Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.
- 绵羊奶和山羊奶的生产过程差不多。