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A goatherd is a person whose work is to look after a group of goats — taking them out to eat, keeping them together, bringing them home. It is the goat version of a shepherd, who does the same job with sheep. You will meet the word in stories, history, and talk about village life more than in a city job . The second half, herd, here means the person who herds, not the group of animals — though English also uses herd for the group itself, which is the little mess. Nobody is being grand with this word; it is simply the old job-name.
牧山羊的人（不是牧羊人；那是看羊的）
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。
goatherdnoun
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A person who herds, tends goats.
- 'Oh, yes. A man was brought to us about a year ago. There'd been a big storm along the southern sector of the Taklamakan. It went on for four or five days. This man was a goatherd from Tongguzbasti. He'd gone out into the desert in search of tamarisk, along with a camel for the load. At midday he had some bread and water and lay down for a sleep. When he woke there was a storm the like of which he'd never seen before. There was nothing for it but to hunker down and make the best of it; but at some point - whether it was day or night he couldn't say - he found himself on his feet, shouting and screaming at the noise, and walking for what must have been miles.'
- Looking up from the center of Rmaich, a Christian town lodged on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, a sun-wizened Lebanese goatherd points to a cluster of pine trees on a ridge.
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。