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The udder is the big soft bag of milk that hangs under the back part of a cow, and also under a goat, a sheep, or a female buffalo. It has teats on it — the small parts a calf sucks, or a farmer pulls or attaches a machine to. It is a plain farm word, not a rude one and not a scientific one; a farmer, a vet, a children's book about a farm all use it happily. English keeps it strictly for these animals: we do not say it about a human, and about a dog or a pig people usually say teats rather than udder. It is nearly always singular, because although there are several teats, the whole bag counts as one thing — you say a cow's udder, not a cow's udders. Sometimes writers use it for a laugh, to describe something heavy and swinging, but that is joking and slightly rude, so it is not a use to copy.
(牛、羊等的)乳房、乳袋;台灣農牧場上常說「牛的乳房」,口語也講「奶包」。中文的「乳房」人和動物都能用,英文的 udder 只用在動物身上。
組成Does not split into parts. It comes down from Old English ūder, and the same very old word runs through many languages — German Euter, Dutch uier, Swedish juver, and Latin ūber all come from the same ancient root for 'udder'.
原始詞典資料2 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。
uddernoun/ˈʌdə/
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An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.
- squeeze the udder to get milk
- The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman.
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slangA woman's breast.
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。