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/ˈkætl/
Cows and bulls that a farmer keeps on a farm, usually for their milk or their meat.
牛隻（家畜）
核心畫面
You can picture a fenced field with a herd of cows and bulls standing in it — animals a farmer keeps together, not as pets but as working stock, for their milk and their meat. The word looks at them as a group: it has no singular form and no 'a' in front of it, so one animal is a cow or a bull, and the whole herd is cattle.
可以想成農場圍欄裡那一群牛：乳牛、公牛站在草地上，不是寵物，而是農民為了牛奶和牛肉養著的家畜。這個字看的是「一群」而…更多收起
可以想成農場圍欄裡那一群牛：乳牛、公牛站在草地上，不是寵物，而是農民為了牛奶和牛肉養著的家畜。這個字看的是「一群」而不是「一頭」——它沒有單數形，前面也不加 a，所以單獨一頭要說 a cow 或 a bull，整群才叫 cattle（two hundred cattle 兩百頭牛）。原始詞典資料7 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。
Cattlename
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A surname.
cattlenoun/ˈkætəl/
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Domesticated animals of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.
- Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.
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Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.
- Mr. Jos had hired a pair of horses for his open carriage, with which cattle, and the smart London vehicle, he made a very tolerable figure in the drives about Brussels.
- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
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derogatoryPeople who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
- "Come, that will do," interrupted Joolby with an impatient growl; "talk, talk, talk—that's all it ever comes to with your kind of cattle. Do you still think that you are playing at charades, girl? […]"
- "I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.
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obsoletelawchattel
- goods and cattle
- That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles, and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.
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rareUsed in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
- The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall-natives, and sheep-fat and cattle-steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.
- “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I. “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。