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ox

/oks/US // ɒks //UK // (ɒks) //

牛,牛牛,牛头,牛牛的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ox·en [ok-suhn] /ˈɒk sən/ for 1, 2, ox·es for 3.

    • : the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
    • : any member of the bovine family.
    • : Informal. a clumsy, stupid fellow.

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Examples

  • On one of their trips, Shrem recalled, the two ventured off a trail and Hedaya had a close encounter with an ox.

  • His company, Livestock Wealth, helps anyone with a smartphone invest in a free-range ox or pregnant cow and enjoy annual growth of up to 14 percent.

  • Google said, “Take this year by the horns—here’s to this next lunar cycle being as strong as an ox!”

  • There's no Nicely-Nicely Johnson hanging out in Times Square these days, no Harry the Horse, no Angie the Ox.

  • The doctors said it was as strong as an ox, considering he was so sedentary.

  • But generally speaking, unless their personal ox is being gored, few young women seem willing to make waves.

  • Whoever's ox Obama chooses to gore will probably be a considerably less enthusiastic coalition member come 2016.

  • They want candidates willing to do whatever it takes—no matter whose ideological ox is gored—to make the economic pain stop.

  • The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

  • The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

  • Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

  • "Sing," said the Bull, as the stiff, muddy ox-bow creaked and strained.

  • It was the custom to sacrifice an ox to him, and to write any treaty made with a neighboring people upon the skin.