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词汇 polecat
释义 polecat
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpəʊl.kæt/ us /ˈpoʊl.kæt/
a small, fierce wild animal with dark brown fur and a strong, unpleasant smell. Polecats live in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. 鸡貂,臭鼬
 
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There we had an exciting time, with allusions to polecats, blue herrings and grandfather rights, which took us into all sorts of flights of fancy.
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For her information, a fitch is from the mustela putorius species and it is a polecat.
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I think that the pure polecat is protected, but you do get a lot of escaped ferrets that revert to polecats.
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These are the fox, the badger, the polecat, the marten, the stoat, the otter, the wildcat, and even the weasel.
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Indeed, odious and poisonous; like a polecat, he never changes his spots.
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Other species, such as the polecat and the pinemarten, have needed careful management to encourage their fortunes to flow rather than to ebb.
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They are a very bold member of the weasel family and the largest, and only they and the polecat in that family are protected.
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It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.
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The number of 10-kilometre squares in which the pine marten is found is only 108; for the wild cat it is 127 and, for the polecat it is 192.
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However, if we are to put the otter on the endangered list, why do we not also put on that list the pine marten, the polecat and the wild cat?
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The majority of polecat-mink hybrids have skulls bearing greater similarities to those of polecats than to minks.
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In winter, the polecat may use farm buildings or haystacks as daytime resting sites.
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The phrase (with polecats instead of cats) was used at least since the 17th century.
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One polecat was reported to frequently wait at a riverbank and catch eels, which it took back to its burrow.
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There is one record of a polecat attacking a mink and dragging it to its burrow.
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