| 单词 | hand-rear |
| 释义 | > as lemmashand-rear hand-rear v. transitive (a) (of a person) to feed and care for (a young animal) until it is fully grown or can feed itself, to rear by hand ( Phrases 1b(a)(ii)); (b) (in extended use) to feed (a baby or young child) by bottle or some other artificial means (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > hand-rear to bring up (also rear) (an animal) on the finger1607 hob1793 mud1814 hand-rear1846 poddy1896 1846 in R. G. Welford Infl. of Game Laws i. 45 Have you been in the habit of hand rearing game? 1861 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 270/2 (advt.) The comparative properties of human and animal milks, suggesting a system by which infants may be hand-reared with success. 1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xix. 128 I curse my stars when the children bring me one of these helpless waifs and strays [sc. stoats and weasels], knowing from repeated experiences the futility of attempting to hand-rear them. 1966 Farmer wants Wife (Farmers Weekly Farm Women's Club) 100 Beauty delivered her litter and promptly died, leaving the twelve pups to be hand-reared. 2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 17/2 The ones that were hand-reared are still noticeably tamer than the parent-reared ones. < as lemmas |
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