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A fenced area used for keeping horses, cattle, or other farm animals, often seen on ranches. As a verb, it means to gather people or animals together into one place, sometimes to control or manage them.
(畜牧用)圍欄;(動詞)把…趕進圍欄、聚攏
組成From Spanish "corral"; it probably comes from an old word for a ring or enclosure used to gather animals. It does not split into English pieces.
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。
Corralname
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A surname.
corralnoun/kəˈɹæl/
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An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
- We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
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An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
- Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
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A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
- The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
corralverb/kəˈɹæl/
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To capture or round up.
- Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
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To place inside of a corral.
- After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
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To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
- The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
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。