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swine

/swahyn/US // swaɪn //UK // (swaɪn) //

猪,猪猡,猪的,猪的问题

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural swine.

    • : any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products.Compare hog, pig, wild boar.
    • : the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.
    • : a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.
    • : a contemptible person.

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Examples

  • Pigs can catch both bird and human influenza, in addition to swine flu.

  • During that period, Sinovac gained approvals to sell influenza, avian flu and swine flu vaccines in China.

  • Because the swine flu was not nearly as lethal as the novel coronavirus, there was not nearly as much need to halt its spread.

  • Based in Australia, the company is proud of a history that spans from its early use of plasma to beat diphtheria a century ago to helping develop the swine flu vaccine a decade ago.

  • In 2009, the WHO was accused of acting too early in declaring swine flu a pandemic, in part over concerns it had been pressured by pharmaceutical companies.

  • Gerald Ford and the swine flu pandemic that never happened in 1976 is a cautionary tale that government action can backfire.

  • At “Iowa Swine Day” in 2013 he was voted the most effective speaker.

  • Reuters hedline: “Deadly swine virus sweeps U.S.”  Disease is called porcine epidemic diarrhea.

  • In southern states like Texas, backyard encounters with feral swine have become routine.

  • Everyone in the mountains knew Hadji Murad, and how he slew the Russian swine.

  • That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

  • There are only four characters, to be sure, but 322 they are such a troop of swine!

  • This saying reminds us of that of our great Master: "Cast not your pearls before swine."

  • Howbeit one place is there wherein would I never seek for such a man 62 as thou, and that is in the swine-sty.

  • Cattle and swine were raised in countless numbers, the former more for draft purposes and the products of the dairy than for beef.