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A byre is a farm building where cattle live — cows, and sometimes other cattle. It is an old British word. You will meet it in books, in the countryside, and especially in Scotland and the north of England, more than in everyday city talk. Most people now say cowshed, or even barn. Though actually, barn is a looser word: a barn can hold hay, tools, or mixed animals. A byre is specifically for the cattle. It does not feel ; it feels rural and a little old-fashioned, which is why modern speakers often reach for a plainer word.
牛舍
組成From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English bȳre. It does not split into pieces in modern English.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
byrenoun/ˈbaɪə/
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A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
- It was here in the kitchen, in the passage, In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]
- ’Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。