a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull 牛;母牛;公牛。 见 cattle (义项1) ■a castrated male of this, formerly much used as a draught animal 去势牛,阉牛 [as modifier]an ox cart. 牛车。 ■an animal of a group related to the domestic ox 家牛。 见 cattle (义项2)
语源
Old English oxa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch os and German Ochse, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit uksán 'bull'