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Someone whose job is to look after sheep — moving them to good grass and protecting them from danger, usually outdoors. As a verb, "to shepherd" someone means to carefully guide or guard a person or group, like a teacher leading students safely across a busy road. "German shepherd" is also the name of a well-known breed of dog.
牧羊人；引導、帶領（動詞）
組成"Shep-" (an old form of "sheep") + "herd" (someone who looks after animals — the same piece found in "cowherd" and "goatherd").
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- herdthe second half of shepherd, meaning a keeper of animals, or the group of animals itself
原始詞典資料16 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。
Shepherdname
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An English surname originating as an occupation.
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A male given name.
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shepherdnoun/ˈʃɛpəd/
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A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
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Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
- The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
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ChristianityThe pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
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ChristianityThe pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
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A swain; a rustic male lover.
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A German Shepherd.
- The dirt floor, low ceiling and unfinished stone walls were barely illuminated by candles and a dim string of green decorative lights. A nervous shepherd mix barked at me as a woman tried to calm it. When my eyes adjusted, I saw people in corners.
shepherdverb/ˈʃɛpəd/
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To watch over; to guide.
- For me has Pain, the sentinel, / Been vigilant / To pace my plot and dwell / Within my tent; / Oft in the night with small alarms / Has stirred me out of rest, / Alert, oppressed, / Till shepherded within thine arms / And on thy breast, / O loving Lady, in the curse of Pain / I have been blest— / […]
- Each entry in this volume was assigned to a different preeminent scholar who was responsible for shepherding that specific entry, and that specific entry alone, into being.
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To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
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。