| 词汇 | example_english_shepherd |
| 释义 | Examples of shepherdThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The shepherds staying behind generally moved to higher altitudes, which were until then 'untouched' by flocks and consequently still fresh. The eclogues depict the shepherds' evening recreations of athletics, dancing, music, and especially verse competition. The shepherds in turn sit and admire the lovely jumps of the satyrs. The basis of the myth is that shepherds absconded to the diggings, forcing pastoralists to pay higher wages, and increase flock sizes to reduce costs. In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party. Consequently, shepherds, landlord and capitalists are not under an obligation to distribute subsistence to the propertyless. The last were the most prosperous group, who hired in other shepherds. He paid lower wages and had larger flocks than other squatters, and expected his shepherds to camp out in the open. Even today there are nuraghi on the island that are used by shepherds and have been rebuilt to meet their needs. Further, sheep need salt, which was expensive for the shepherds, but rocksalts could be found inside most forests. Undeterred, he shepherded his flock and gradually built up a base of popular support through a display of leadership, toughness and humour. In this study only seven children and adolescents aged 9-17 years were infected, and all of them came from shepherds' families with o6 members. The activities of the foresters and of the shepherds are associated with long distance migration. The shortage of shepherds meant that squatters either had to invest in fences, or miss reaping the benefits of the booming market. Many of the early fences were brush or log, and many squatters went directly from shepherding to wire fences. Despite the complexity of the transition, a persistent historical myth attributes a single cause: the lack of shepherds during the gold-rushes of the early 1850s. The traditional and iconic shepherd's crook was almost completely unknown in the colonies. His predecessor said that our just ancestors had been shepherds of flocks rather than, or more than (' magis quam ') kings of men. As a result shepherds started to buy land on a large scale in the mountains and especially the lowlands. The shepherds' annual descent to these winter pastures would eventually create problems. Two or three shepherds were ordinarily engaged in these latter two contracts. Earlier, the shepherds themselves wove wool to a large extent. The cost was practically nil for a group of shepherds willing to migrate long distances seasonally. I never touched so much as a forkful of his shepherd's pie. Whereas the earlier characterization of the authorities as shepherds constituted them as superior, they were now held accountable for the motherland's suffering and imminent death. The sum of these advantages must have made financial sense, or the pastoralists would not have adopted fences and discarded shepherds. The use of dogs by colonial shepherds varied widely. Fences only replaced shepherds when pastoralists realised that the new technology of fences, combined with other changes, would give them higher profits. The term was transferred to the colonies to describe older shepherds in particular, and shepherds in general. More complex was the system of 'thirds', when shepherds received a third (or other agreed proportion) of the lambs born. Although the primary image of shepherds is of men, this is not entirely accurate. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Since cupids had to dance to the monster's music, and shepherds to that of the satyrs, the music needed to be kept fairly neutral. Scottish shepherd's plaid (more than half sentimental) - one's fallen in the mire. The first three shepherds' huts are distributed at the bottom of the valley between the complex pastoral sites. Apparently, there was also a large fall in the number of shepherds. The large majority of these cases occurred in shepherds. The centenary should not pass without mention of those many people who have shepherded the journal through the past 100 years. There appears to be no logical reason why a shortage of shepherds per se should lead to fencing. There is some irony that earlier observers criticised shepherding from fixed huts and hurdle yards as causing similar problems. One of the shepherds' tasks was to keep their flocks separated, and most certainly away from travelling flocks. Unfortunately, there are no statistics before 1886 showing the change in management from shepherding to paddocking. The refinement of the shepherd's use of the border collie was no doubt a part of this process. Contrary to popular myth, early trials were gentry sponsored and therefore heavily freighted with elite values concerning the nature of the shepherds' craft. At the same time, the shepherds and farmers, who made practical use of sheepdogs, assumed direction of the sport. As demonstrated above, three isolated shepherds' huts were located at the low valley between the ovili centrali implying that individual shepherds were also using the lower pasture. The bulk of recent portable artefacts at the remaining three isolated shepherds' huts, however, imply a late abandonment during the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. In contrast, the village land was grazed at very high stocking rates because it was impossible for shepherds to introduce suciently small -ocks to make grazing safe. The number of shepherds cooperating depended on the sizes of the individual flocks and the area of pasture available, which in turn determined the location of other surrounding pastoral settlements. Pastoral poetry typically presents a highly stylised nature setting: sporting shepherds move about in a remote, idealised natural landscape, wholly free of any serious physical threats. By this time, shepherds send old sheep to the abattoir, and these animals are usually thinner with a low efficiency and likely to be infected with cysts. While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters. Despite the crucial importance of shepherds, there has been no detailed assessment of the work, the wages, the people and the conditions under which they worked. Alongside, there were shepherds who specialized as weavers and bought wool, who wove part-time along with performing general services for the village, and those that reared large herds. From these examples it is safe to conclude that as more shepherds married, their wives and later their children were expected to contribute to the work. Each morning, shepherds counted their flocks out of the folds, and took them out to pasture, and watched over them during the day while the sheep fed. A further difference with the plains shepherds consisted in the gender division of labour: the men were usually spinners, and carried a portable distaff, while the women wove. The shepherds guarded their flock. When all options seem to have been exhausted and the calf has reached a critical state, the shepherds enlist the help of a local musician to enact a healing ritual. I know that there are not many shepherds, hill farmers and gamekeepers living in the remote access areas concerned, but they still have voices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason many people are not keeping sheep today is that they cannot get enough shepherds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He distinguished between the sheep and the shepherds and the dogs—the active leaders and those who merely came to listen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have benignly and indulgently watched me go round and round in circles before shepherding me safely in the right direction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A sheep farmer with only a couple of shepherds has usually not got the labour to control the fire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are nearly all literates, even the high shepherds and the cattlemen in the mountains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first is that the sheep are the flock owner's or shepherd's—usually the same person. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What are the arguments, in those circumstances, to consider shepherding 1,000 plus public servants into one large agency? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a myth nowadays that that can be done through shepherding, but shepherding is a thing of the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have developed hill farming and other schemes, better housing for our shepherds and cattlemen and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many shepherds or old blind people for whom a fee of £5 would be a heavy burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are some farms with a great many shepherds, for instance, and three employees is perhaps only half of what they have to use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another possible cause is the use of poisons by shepherds to protect lambs from birds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The basement is in use and children are shepherded there to wait. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As regards highly skilled agricultural labour, this applies mainly to wagoners or carters, and shepherds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have been in football crowds with people from all walks of life when the police shepherded supporters around, causing danger to individual safety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The farmers and the shepherds have to cope with extremely difficult conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The probability is that in the position where the shepherd's house must be you have enough water for only one house. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many farmers are scared of keeping sheep owing to the problem of finding shepherds to-day, because shepherds are rather a dying race. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are to keep shepherds on the land, we cannot afford to allow hill sheep farming to run down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Shepherds and cattle men could get much better wages temporarily working on those schemes than the farmers are able to pay them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are in the same category as a shepherd's dog or a farm dog. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By doing so, he was denying the local shepherds a right they had exercised as long as they could remember. Verbal evidence from shepherds and veterinarians also indicates that reproducing females can be found on sheep in these environments in all seasons. Thorp looked at fifty dances not entitled 'pastoral' but which used shepherds and shepherdesses: of these thirty-eight were for benefit nights. Only 6 men were listed as farmers and 4 as shepherds. The forests were essential to the shepherds for several reasons. The primary participants in wool weaving were the shepherds. When those with different occupations are compared, the greatest extent of village endogamy is seen among the shepherds. In other words, despite the complaints of pastoralists, they were achieving slightly lowered costs from their shepherds by increasing flock sizes. More likely, such shepherds were accumulating capital in the form of lambs on the 'thirds' system. Squatters and pastoralists seemed to be indifferent to the gender of their shepherds, especially in times of labour shortages and rising wages. Pastoralists learned from experience and informal diffusion of knowledge, that there were distinct financial advantages in paddocking sheep rather than shepherding them. The sum of these advantages made financial sense, or the pastoralists would not have adopted fences and discarded shepherds. With no social conditioning to maintain shepherds, flockowners exploited every opportunity to increase the productivity of their workers. The prince in his own condition is a complex figure, only one aspect of whom is apparent in shepherd's costume. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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