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词汇 mare
释义 mare
noun[ C ]
uk /meər/ us /mer/

marenoun[C] (HORSE)


an adult female horse(成年)母马
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stallion
 
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Names for the male & female of animals
billy goat
bitch
boar
boomer
buck
bull
bullock
cob
doe
drake
drone
ewe
gelding
nanny goat
sow
stag
stallion
steer
tigress
tom

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Horses & similar animals

marenoun[C] (WOMAN)


UKvery informal
a way of talking to or about a woman that shows a lack of respect:
You stupid mare!
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Insults & abuse
abusive
abusively
backhanded compliment
brickbat
catcall
catcaller
catcalling
contumely
dis
jeer
mouth
name
neg
negging
point-scoring
put something/someone down
revile
sledging
slight
stick

marenoun[C] (SITUATION)


UKinformal
a difficult or unpleasant situation or experience:
I had a real mare trying to get the printer working again.
Synonym
nightmare
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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

mare | American Dictionary


mare
noun[ C ]
us/meər/
an adult female horse

Examples of mare


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Detection of chemotactic factors in preovulatory follicular fluid from mares.
In 1954, the value of imports of stallions, mares and geldings was £5,287,000, and of exports £5,018,000.
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I really think he is barking up the wrong tree there, and it is a pure mare's nest.
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Is he not aware that these facts are within public knowledge, and that it cannot be described as my mare's nest?
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Did the inspector who visited this man's estate count the number of mares?
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About 100 mares of this type were submitted for inspection and thirteen of these were chosen as suitable for allotment and placed out with custodians.
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He has raised a mare's nest, purely for the sake of propaganda.
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I hope he does not mean to confine his buying to breeders who have registered mares and sires under that scheme.
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She said that mares had foaled in school playgrounds.
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Investigating a mare's nest is always an infructuous operation.
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Is any scheme in contemplation for the retaining of mares for breeding purposes?
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The mares are inspected and a number are selected.
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There may be a difficulty in finding suitable mares for the stallions without a proper premium.
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The question will be whether you will find the requisite number of mares; therefore whether the premiums will be paid.
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I entirely agree with him that the whole crux of horse breeding requirements and success is to keep the brood mares at home.
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