calves
音標(biāo)：
英音/ kɑ?vz /美音/ k?vz /

聽聽基本釋意：

見原文：https://engapi.com/article/4996

外刊例句：
The coast guard, police and rescue volunteers found 55 whales — both adults and calves — stranded on the beach on Sunday morning, according to the British Divers Marine Life Rescue charity, which coordinated the response.
據(jù)負(fù)責(zé)協(xié)調(diào)救援工作的英國潛水員海洋生物救援慈善機(jī)構(gòu)稱，周日早上，海岸警衛(wèi)隊(duì)、警察和救援志愿者在海灘上發(fā)現(xiàn)了 55 頭鯨魚，其中包括成年鯨魚和幼鯨。
—New York Times

Some covers featured wood or the skin of such animals as calves and pigs.
有些封面以木頭或小牛和豬等動物的皮膚為特色。
—Washington Post

The man decided to intervene, thinking the calf was otherwise doomed, even though most attempts by newborn calves to cross such waterways succeed.
該男子決定進(jìn)行干預(yù)，認(rèn)為否則小牛就注定要失敗，盡管新生小牛試圖穿越這些水道的大多數(shù)嘗試都會成功。
—Washington Times

基本釋意：
noun
young of domestic cattle
小牛；小腿；腓；呆子（calf 的復(fù)數(shù)）

同義詞：
calfskin,sura

短釋義：
Cattle are not the only animals whose babies are called calves. You can use the word to mean a baby whale, baby elephant, camel, bison, elk, giraffe, gnu, hippopotamus, moose, ox, reindeer, rhinoceros, and yak. If a large piece of ice breaks off of a glacier or iceberg, well that’s a calf too! If you want to strengthen your calves, doing heel raises while holding a calf is an interesting way to go about it.
小牛這個詞可以指小牛或公牛，也可以指腳踝和膝蓋之間的腿后部區(qū)域。

長釋義：
Cattle are not the only animals whose babies are called calves. You can use the word to mean a baby whale, baby elephant, camel, bison, elk, giraffe, gnu, hippopotamus, moose, ox, reindeer, rhinoceros, and yak. If a large piece of ice breaks off of a glacier or iceberg, well that’s a calf too! If you want to strengthen your calves, doing heel raises while holding a calf is an interesting way to go about it.
牛并不是唯一一種其嬰兒被稱為小牛的動物。你可以用這個詞來表示小鯨魚、小象、駱駝、野牛、麋鹿、長頸鹿、牛羚、河馬、駝鹿、牛、馴鹿、犀牛和牦牛。如果一大塊冰從冰川或冰山上脫落，那也是一頭小牛！如果你想增強(qiáng)小腿力量，握住小腿的同時抬高腳跟是一種有趣的方法。

文學(xué)例句：
I sit in the bathtub, scraping away at my calves, which I wish were thicker, bulgier, like the calves of cheerleaders, while my brother mutters outside.
我坐在浴缸里，刮著我的小腿，我希望我的小腿能更粗、更鼓起，就像啦啦隊(duì)的小腿一樣，而我的兄弟在外面嘀咕著。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Annabelle shuffles and pants, feeling the pull in her thighs and calves and the press in her lungs.
安娜貝爾拖著腳步，穿上褲子，感覺到大腿和小腿的拉力以及肺部的壓力。
—A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Bending over to scratch the flea bites on my calves, I smell something else—manure— and notice a clump clinging to my shoe.
我彎下腰去抓小腿上跳蚤叮咬的地方，聞到了另一種味道——糞便——并注意到我的鞋子上粘著一團(tuán)東西。
—The Queen of Water by Laura Resau

詞源：
calve?(v.)”to bring forth a calf or calves,” Old English cealfian, from cealf “calf” (see calf (n.1)). Of glaciers, “to lose a portion by an iceberg breaking off,” 1837. Related: Calved; calving.Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
calve (v.)“生出一頭或多頭小牛”，古英語 cealfian，源自 cealf“小牛”（參見 calf (n.1)）。關(guān)于冰川，“因冰山斷裂而失去一部分”，1837 年。產(chǎn)犢。相關(guān)條目及更多