请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 bull
释义
bull1 nounbull2 interjection
bullbull1 /bʊl/ ●●○ noun Entry menu
MENU FOR bullbull1 male cow2 male animal3 take the bull by the horns4 nonsense5 like a bull in a china shop6 like a bull at a gate7 religion8 centre9 business
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbull1
Origin:
1-3, 5-6, 8-9 Old English bula4 1900-2000 bullshit7 1200-1300 Medieval Latin bulla
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I charged in like a bull.
  • It didn't take Lowell long to realise that the bull hadn't unearthed any pieces of urn.
  • Myrcan sympathy, like milk from a bull.
  • Put another way, if Karelin were in Pamplona, the bulls would run away from him. 6.
  • The bull was under the protection of a court order.
  • With the right company, certainly the stock should hit new highs with the next bull market.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto make someone angry
also make somebody mad especially American · Sophie tried not to do anything that would make Henry angry. · It always makes me mad when people drive up behind me and start flashing their lights.
to make someone fairly angry: · The only reason she went out with Charles was to annoy her parents.· Jane's constant chatter was beginning to annoy me.· Are you doing that just to annoy me?it annoys somebody that/when: · It annoys me that Kim never returns the books she borrows.I find it annoying when...: · I find it annoying when people eat smelly foods on public transport.
to keep annoying someone: · That silly smile of hers always irritated me.· After a while, the loud ticking of the clock began to irritate me.· Jean Paul's attempts to apologize just irritated me even more.
also tick somebody off American informal an impolite expression meaning to annoy someone: · Shut up, Bernie, before you really start to piss me off.it pisses somebody off the way: · Doesn't it piss you off the way your husband sits in front of the TV every night while you cook dinner?
to make someone very angry especially by doing something that they cannot control or change: · Her racist attitudes infuriated her co-workers.· Kramer's stubborn refusal to answer any questions infuriated the officers.
formal to make someone angry: · The police department's handling of the affair has angered many in the community.· The decision to again allow logging in the area angered environmentalists.
informal if something bugs you, it annoys you because it is always there or is always happening, so that you cannot stop thinking about it or noticing it: · It really bugs me when I can't remember someone's name.· You know what bugs me? Getting a call from a telephone salesman right when I sit down to dinner.
if someone or something gets on your nerves , they annoy you, especially by continually saying or doing something that you do not like: · The noise from the apartment upstairs was beginning to get on my nerves.· I hope Emma isn't going to be there - she really gets on my nerves.
spoken informal use this to say that something makes you very angry, especially an unfair situation: · It makes me sick, the way they treat old people here.
British /be like waving a red rag in front of a bull American if something is like a red rag to a bull , it will always make a particular person angry: · Whatever you do, don't mention his ex-wife. It's like a red rag to a bull.
to deal with a problem or difficult situation
to begin to deal with a problem in a determined way, especially a big or complicated problem: · Many schools are now trying to tackle the problem of drug abuse.· The new laws are aimed at tackling unemployment.tackle something head on (=deal with something in a direct and determined way): · Police forces in the area are trying to tackle car crime head on.
to deal with a problem or a difficult situation, especially in an effective or confident way: · There were a few problems, but nothing I couldn't handle.· A lot of people find it difficult to handle criticism.handle something well/badly: · The whole situation has been very badly handled.· It's her first year as a doctor, but she is handling the pressures of the job very well.
especially British to deal with small but difficult problems that are causing trouble or preventing you from doing something: · I spent the weekend sorting out my tax affairs.· We'll have to sort your immigration status out before we can offer you a job.sort yourself out (=deal with any personal problems you have): · I decided to take a week's holiday to try and sort myself out.
to try hard to deal with a difficult problem or situation, especially for a long time: · The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but cars still choke the streets in the rush hour.· There is no environmental policy in a country that is still grappling with increasing poverty.
to deal with a difficult situation or problem in a quick, confident, and determined way: · Helena decided to take the bull by the horns and organize the show herself.
WORD SETS
agrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Several times I saw a big bull, sometimes even two together.· Alligators are not particularly sociable animals, and big bull gators often will stake out their own ponds.· And we don't just want the big bulls.
· In the red corner, Derby the 5 year old bull.· He is high up in the hayloft when five of the men come in leading the old bull.· Only three-year-old bulls are slaughtered, and the Pribilof population is now thought to approach two million.
· Fiskars Kitchen Devils polyethylene board with colour-coded symbols - red bull for raw meats, yellow joint for cooked meats and so on.
· Steer and heifer prices remained firm throughout the week, however, young bull prices weakened slightly.· The other school is composed of young bull whales.· Every two or three years the family organises a festival for branding the calves and castrating the young bulls.· Teenage boys, like young bulls in a herd, often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength.· He was a raw young bull, itching for more action and glamour in his life.· Hopefully, the recent addition of a young Limousin bull will help us mop up stragglers next spring.
NOUN
· I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf.· Sucklers hit a high of £818 going to M Mackin for a Limousin heifer and bull calf.
· The effect is similar to a situation in which share prices rapidly increase - a bull market.· They hear that there is a bull market to ride, and they do not care which direction the bull is headed.· After the great bull market, he was sitting on a £13 million paper fortune.· The average length of a bull market is 28 months, according to Ibbotson.· Yet savers will still profit from the bull market as beneficiaries of the pension funds to which they sold their shares.· This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.· Spicer points out that the sector has thrived in a bull market but the advertising boom may be coming to an end.· This bull market will end, as every bull market eventually ends.
· Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers.· He could check it, he supposed, with the new super, a tough-talking veteran with a pit bull.· High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.· Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.· Statistically in San Francisco, pit bulls are over-represented in attacks on people, according to animal control officials.· Animal advocates strongly oppose the practice of denying insurance to owners of pit bulls and Rottweilers.· Do you own a pit bull?
· Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers.· Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done, the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child.· These activities supported high-stakes gambling, for example, on the outcome of fights between selectively bred bull terriers.· High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.· Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he'd try his luck.· The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee.· Their Staffordshire bull terrier Bodger was destroyed after the attack in their home at Lee-on-Solent, Portsmouth.· It was a portrait of the white bull terrier, executed with incredible precision.
VERB
· Livestock too present many dangers with one farmer being killed when his Simmental bull attacked him.
· And so, in true Arien fashion, she had decided to take the bull by the horns.· Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Helena decided to take the bull by the horns and organize the show herself.
  • We decided to take the bull by the horns and go to court, instead of paying the fine.
  • Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
  • You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
  • They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • He gave me a cock and bull story about the glass being smashed by hailstones.
► a load of crap/bull etc
  • Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
  • Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.
  • Here I found four or five members slouched around a deal table shooting the breeze.
  • Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.
  • Unlike the other candidates, he is always ready to sit in the back of his bus shooting the breeze with reporters.
1bull (1)male cow [countable] an adult male animal of the cattle family:  a herd of cows with one bull2male animal [countable] the male of some other large animals such as the elephant or whale3take the bull by the horns to bravely or confidently deal with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant problem:  Nora decided to take the bull by the horns and organize things for herself.4nonsense [uncountable] informal nonsense or something that is completely untrue SYN  rubbish:  What a load of bull!5like a bull in a china shop if you are like a bull in a china shop, you keep knocking things over, dropping things, breaking things etc6like a bull at a gate if you move somewhere like a bull at a gate, you move there very fast, ignoring everything in your way7religion [countable] an official statement from the Pope8centre [countable] (also bullseye) the centre of a target that you are shooting at9business [countable] technical someone who buys shares because they expect prices to rise → 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)
bull1 nounbull2 interjection
bullbull2 interjection Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbull2
Origin:
1900-2000 ➔ BULL1 (2)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Bull! You could have come if you really wanted to.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • He gave me a cock and bull story about the glass being smashed by hailstones.
► a load of crap/bull etc
  • Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.
  • Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.
  • Here I found four or five members slouched around a deal table shooting the breeze.
  • Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.
  • Unlike the other candidates, he is always ready to sit in the back of his bus shooting the breeze with reporters.
 used to say that you do not believe or agree with what someone has said:  Bull! Where did you get that idea?
随便看

　

英语词典包含52748条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。

　

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2025/3/21 9:44:01