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词汇 milking
释义 milking
present participle ofmilk
milk
verb
uk /mɪlk/ us /mɪlk/

milkverb (GET MILK)


[ I or T ]
to get milk from an animal: 挤…的奶;挤(奶)
Milking a cow by hand is a skilled process.手工挤牛奶是一项技术活。
Some goats seem to milk (= produce milk) better than others.有些山羊似乎比其他羊更容易产奶。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal farming - general words
animal husbandry
aquaculture
aquaponics
bedding
beekeeping
dip
draft
drove
hand-rear
hand-reared
heeler
herd
honeycomb
sheep shearing
sheepdog
shepherd
slaughter
stable
subtherapeutic
teaser

milkverb (GET MONEY/INFORMATION)


[ T ]disapproving
to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way: 榨取,勒索
[ + obj + adj ]The newspapers milked the story dry.报纸拿这个故事做尽了文章。
The directors milked the company of several million dollars.几个董事榨取了公司数百万英镑的钱财。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and extracting
ablate
abstract
abstraction
bowdlerization
bowdlerized
extraction
extrication
filterable
filtration
fish something out
gouge something out
peel
root something out/up
rout someone out
scoop something out
slice
slice something off
snowploughing
wipe
withdrawal

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Advantage and disadvantage

Examples of milking


milking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Where ranching predominates, wetlands provide choice dry-season pastures; corrals and milking sheds often perch on the islands.
The cattle and calves were housed in sheds and pens in adjacent buildings to the milking parlour or across the farmyard.
These hoses were used for cleaning milking equipment and washing down the milking area.
For each milking, the milk samples were collected separately and a suitable proportionate aliquot mixed.
The women in the field study were mainly engaged in milking, butter-making and animal care, in addition to housework.
Estimated genetic and phenotypic correlations between milking speed and dairy traits were low, positive for yields and negative for contents.
Most of the redundant cattle enclosures were transformed into sheepfolds partly for milking, but probably mainly to shelter flocks during the night or bad weather.
Milking time depends on many environmental conditions (milking parlour, milking machine parameters) and also on the ability of animals for milking.
The third group, mated to high milking speed females, gave daughters with either low or high milking speed.
Record companies milking back catalogues for the cinema screen was highly evident.
These observations were coherent with the segregation of a biallelic major gene, with a favourable and recessive allele increasing milking speed.
However, good milking hygiene and properly working milking machines probably reduce the degree of faecal contamination of raw milk.
These liners were subsequently found to fit poorly, and air drained into the milk during milking.
Before milking started, designated teat cup liners were swabbed to check cleanliness.
Milk partitioning and flow rate during machine milking according to parity, prolificacy and mode of suckling.
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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