| 单词 | bull |
| 释义 | Related topics: Animals, Agriculture, Christianity, Other sports, Stocks & sharesbull1 /bʊl/ ●●○ noun 1 male cow 公牛HBATA [countable] an adult male animal of the cattle family 公牛 a herd of cows with one bull 一群母牛加一头公牛2. male animal 雄性动物HBA [countable] the male of some other large animals such as the elephant or whale 〔象、鲸等大型动物的〕雄性动物3 take the bull by the horns DEAL WITHto bravely or confidently deal with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant problem 挺身面对困难 Nora decided to take the bull by the horns and organize things for herself. 诺拉决定迎难而上，自己来安排事情。4 nonsense 废话 [uncountable]UNTRUE informal nonsense or something that is completely untrue 胡说 SYN rubbish What a load of bull! 真是胡说八道！5. like a bull in a china shop CLUMSYif you are like a bull in a china shop, you keep knocking things over, dropping things, breaking things etc 笨手笨脚，莽撞冒失6. like a bull at a gate HURRYif you move somewhere like a bull at a gate, you move there very fast, ignoring everything in your way 鲁莽地；凶猛地7. religion 宗教RRC [countable] an official statement from the Pope 教皇训谕[诏书]8. centre 中心DSO [countable] (also bullseye) the centre of a target that you are shooting at 靶心9. business 商业 [countable] technicalBFS someone who buys shares because they expect prices to rise 多头；股市看涨的人 → bear → bull market → cock and bull story at cock1(4), → like a red rag to a bull at red1(5), → shoot the bull at shoot1(13)Examples from the Corpusbull• Myrcan sympathy, like milk from a bull.• I charged in like a bull.• With the right company, certainly the stock should hit new highs with the next bull market.• Put another way, if Karelin were in Pamplona, the bulls would run away from him. 6.• It didn't take Lowell long to realise that the bull hadn't unearthed any pieces of urn.• The bull was under the protection of a court order.bull2 interjection UNTRUEused to say that you do not believe or agree with what someone has said 废话，胡说 Bull! Where did you get that idea? 胡扯！ 你怎么会有那种想法？Examples from the Corpusbull• Bull! You could have come if you really wanted to.From Longman Business Dictionarybullbull /bʊl/ noun [countable]FINANCE1someone who thinks that prices of shares, bonds, currencies, etc are going to rise, and who will therefore keep and buy investmentsBulls predict the Dow Jones will go beyond 13,000.A growing group of dollar bulls (=people who think the price of the dollar is going to rise) has kept the dollar on a firm footing. → compare bear2a bull marketOrigin bull1 1. Old English bula2. (1900-2000) bullshit3. (1200-1300) Medieval Latin bulla bull2 (1900-2000) → BULL12bull1 nounbull2 interjectionChinese animal the male of adult Business Corpus cattle an |
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