词汇 | shepherdess |
释义 | shepherdess noun[ C ] uk /ˈʃep.ə.des//ˌʃep.əˈdes/ us /ˈʃep.ɚ.dɪs/ a woman whose job is to take care of sheep and move them from one place to another女牧羊人,牧羊女 People who work with animals apiarist beekeeper breeder buckaroo cowboy cowman dogcatcher drover gaucho goatherd herdsman jackaroo jillaroo mahout milker primatologist shepherd stable boy stockman stockwoman Examples of shepherdessshepherdess Thorp looked at fifty dances not entitled 'pastoral' but which used shepherds and shepherdesses: of these thirty-eight were for benefit nights. First, the refrain word is pronounced by the knight in all stanzas except the last: he controls the shepherdess. Here, the solitary life of the shepherdess is interrupted by the boy, with whom she falls in love. She uses her beauty and magical powers (disguising demons as shepherds and shepherdesses, for example) to enchant him. The catchy little tune reveals she is a nun and not, say, some shepherdess. Weave garlands and adorn the hair of your beloved shepherdesses. Nino eventually rebels: he discards his queenly disguise and abandons his kingdom to frolic with a beautiful shepherdess. Until stanza 12 in which the shepherdess herself speaks the key word 'vilana' and definitively takes control. How do we get that message quickly—at the same speed at which we transfer it to one another—to all the shepherdesses in this country? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was all very exciting until a telephone call came from his shepherdess reporting that he was sick and unable to recover quickly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She volunteered to become an assistant shepherdess during lambing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know the difference between a shepherd and a shepherdess, but that is all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not dresden shepherdesses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but the author imparts human interest to this idealized world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She scorned the shepherdess for her folly, but the shepherdess bid farewell to the lovely girl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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