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sheepdog

/sheep-dawg, -dog/US // ˈʃipˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg //UK // (ˈʃiːpˌdɒɡ) //

牧羊犬,绵羊犬,牧童,放羊的狗

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.

Examples

  • Raising a good sheepdog is about building trust between the dog and the handler, Caldicott says.

  • Grossman has a name for the kind of person who sees the gun as protector in the opening thought experiment: sheepdog.

  • But Grossman would say that all I am doing is leaving the sheepdog burden for others, that I am choosing to live in denial.

  • The mop-haired pup, Beast, is a type of Hungarian sheepdog and frequently posts pictures and insight into his family life.

  • A young sheepdog appeared, but when it saw him it turned tail and slunk away as if it were afraid of him.

  • She works her way out like a sheepdog working his way out of a flock of sheep, or like a boat through pack-ice.

  • I sit there with my beer in my hand and think about it for a while, while Hotlips looks at me like a lost sheepdog.

  • My comment on this story was that the farmer had displayed an almost incredible ignorance of a sheepdog—and a shepherd.

  • Then sometimes you find all predictions upset, and all the big dogs beaten by a greyhound or an Old English sheepdog.