shear
shear
(past participle shorn 或 sheared)
shearer
noun
语源
(past participle shorn 或 sheared)
- [with obj.]cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)
剪（羊或其他动物的）毛
■cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears
剪；剪割
I'll shear off all that fleece.
我要把所有羊毛剪下。
■(be shorn of)have something cut off
把…剪下
they were shorn of their hair.
他们被剪光了头发。
the richest man in the US was shorn of nearly $2 billion.
美国最有钱的富翁损失了近20亿美元。 - break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain
（受剪切力作用而）断裂；切变
[no obj.]the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel.
自行车的换档齿轮断裂，卡住了后轮。
[with obj.]the left wing had been almost completely sheared off.
左翼几乎完全被折断了。
- [mass noun]a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
切变；剪应力。 参见wind shear
shearer
noun
语源
- Old English sceran (originally in the sense 'cut through with a weapon'), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning 'divide, shear, shave'
- The two verbs shear and sheer are sometimes confused: see usage at sheer
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