shear
shear 英 [ʃɪə(r)] 美 [ʃɪr]
v. 剪；修剪
进行时:shearing 过去式:sheared 过去分词:shorn 第三人称单数:shears 名词复数:shears
- A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears.
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- v. 剪；修剪
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1. It was time for the sheep to be shorn.
是剪羊毛的时节了。
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2. sheep shearing
剪羊毛
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3. shorn hair
剪得很短的头发
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4. The bolts holding the wheel in place sheared off.
固定这个轮子的几个螺栓断了。
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5. Shorn of his power, the deposed king went into exile.
权力被褫夺后，遭废黜的国王流亡国外。
- shear (n.) "act of clipping," 1610s, also as a unit of measure of the age of a sheep, from shear (v.). Scientific and mechanical sense "type of strain" is from 1850.
- shear (v.) Old English sceran, scieran (class IV strong verb; past tense scear, past participle scoren) "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument; cut (hair); shear (sheep)," from Proto-Germanic *skero "to cut" (source also of Old Norse and Old Frisian skera, Dutch scheren, German scheren "to shear"), from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut."
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