calves
音标：
英音/ kɑːvz /美音/ kævz /
听听基本释意：
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.
据负责协调救援工作的英国潜水员海洋生物救援慈善机构称，周日早上，海岸警卫队、警察和救援志愿者在海滩上发现了 55 头鲸鱼，其中包括成年鲸鱼和幼鲸。
—New York Times
Some covers featured wood or the skin of such animals as calves and pigs.
有些封面以木头或小牛和猪等动物的皮肤为特色。
—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.
该男子决定进行干预，认为否则小牛就注定要失败，尽管新生小牛试图穿越这些水道的大多数尝试都会成功。
—Washington Times
基本释意：
noun
young of domestic cattle
小牛；小腿；腓；呆子（calf 的复数）
同义词：
calfskin,sura
短释义：
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.
小牛这个词可以指小牛或公牛，也可以指脚踝和膝盖之间的腿后部区域。
长释义：
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.
牛并不是唯一一种其婴儿被称为小牛的动物。你可以用这个词来表示小鲸鱼、小象、骆驼、野牛、麋鹿、长颈鹿、牛羚、河马、驼鹿、牛、驯鹿、犀牛和牦牛。如果一大块冰从冰川或冰山上脱落，那也是一头小牛！如果你想增强小腿力量，握住小腿的同时抬高脚跟是一种有趣的方法。
文学例句：
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，刮着我的小腿，我希望我的小腿能更粗、更鼓起，就像啦啦队的小腿一样，而我的兄弟在外面嘀咕着。
—Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Annabelle shuffles and pants, feeling the pull in her thighs and calves and the press in her lungs.
安娜贝尔拖着脚步，穿上裤子，感觉到大腿和小腿的拉力以及肺部的压力。
—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.
我弯下腰去抓小腿上跳蚤叮咬的地方，闻到了另一种味道——粪便——并注意到我的鞋子上粘着一团东西。
—The Queen of Water by Laura Resau
词源：
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
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
calve (v.)“生出一头或多头小牛”，古英语 cealfian，源自 cealf“小牛”（参见 calf (n.1)）。关于冰川，“因冰山断裂而失去一部分”，1837 年。产犊。相关条目及更多
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