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donkey

/dong-kee, dawng-, duhng-/US // ˈdɒŋ ki, ˈdɔŋ-, ˈdʌŋ- //UK // (ˈdɒŋkɪ) //

驴子,毛驴,头驴,驴友

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural don·keys.

    • : the domestic ass, Equus asinus.
    • : a representation of this animal as the emblem of the U.S. Democratic Party.
    • : a stupid, silly, or obstinate person.
    • : a woodworking apparatus consisting of a clamping frame and saw, used for cutting marquetry veneers.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Machinery. auxiliary: donkey engine; donkey pump; donkey boiler.

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Examples

  • If memory serves, donkey dung doesn’t broadcast itself with anything like the strength of horse dung.

  • These are your site’s biggest donkeys, the pages with the highest number of impressions but deliver lower than expected CTR for their ranking position.

  • My husband wrote a note apologizing that the camel and donkey mates were missing.

  • Cars, buses, truck—even motorcycles, bicycles and donkeys—may be required to get the vaccine to rural areas.

  • Sixteen contenders — mostly dogs, with one donkey, a rooster and a cat in the mix — fought hard for the title of mayor.

  • Nearby a family of Turkish Kurds busied themselves in their fields piling vegetables onto a donkey-drawn cart.

  • In the second instance, it is a man and his wife pleading from atop a donkey.

  • He patrolled on foot, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) filled the donkey paths that crisscrossed the wadis and hills.

  • For the donkeys who have long felt that Donkey Ball should not be real, 2014 earns an A-.

  • He was painting the Sistine Chapel, and he was angry at one of the bishops or cardinals, so he painted him in with donkey ears.

  • His donkey stumbled—it was natural enough, seeing that the reins hung loose and his feet had somehow left the stirrups.

  • His donkey had gone lame, he abandoned it to the boys behind, he climbed in to drive with Lettice.

  • Ibrahim stopped his song to sigh, and struck his donkey lightly under the right ear, causing it to turn sharply to the left.

  • And now Ibrahim struck his donkey again, and they went on rapidly towards the Libyan mountains.

  • Could all these people read her mind and follow the track of her distastes and desires, even the dragomans and the donkey-boys?