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To castrate a male animal or a man is to take out the , so he cannot father young. Farmers still do this with some animals — pigs, horses, cattle — to make them calmer or to change the meat. With men it is rare now and was always a grave thing: palace eunuchs in old courts, and in Europe some boy singers were castrated so their high voice would stay. The older everyday English word for animals was ; castrate is the Latin, more medical word, and it covers people as well as animals. It is a serious body word. People sometimes stretch it as a picture: to castrate a law or a plan means to take its power away — though that use can sound ugly, so be careful with it.
組成Borrowed from Latin castrātus, from castrō, 'to prune, to cut away, to castrate'. English uses -ate as the verb ending. It pushed aside the older native word geld in the wider sense.
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- castrationthe noun for this act
- castratoItalian from the same Latin: a male singer castrated as a boy
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
castratenoun詞源 1/kæsˈtɹeɪt/
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A castrated man; a eunuch.
- The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.
castrateverb詞源 2/ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/
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To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
- If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.
- 2
To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
- 3
To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
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