| 词汇 | shepherding |
| 释义 | shepherding present participle ofshepherd shepherd verb[ Tusually+ adv/prep ] uk /ˈʃep.əd/ us /ˈʃep.ɚd/ shepherdverb[T usually + adv/prep] (PEOPLE)to make a group of people move to where you want them to go, especially in a kind, helpful, and careful way: 带领，引导 He shepherded the old people towards the dining room.他把老人们领到餐厅。 Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way accompanied by someone/something accompany accompany someone to something bring bring someone/something along chaperone convoy direct drop guide lead march refer see someone off self-guided shepherd show someone around (something) usher usherette walk shepherdverb[T usually + adv/prep] (SHEEP)to move sheep from one place to another: 牧羊 The dogs shepherded the sheep into the pens.狗把羊赶进了羊圈。 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 Examples of shepherdingshepherding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding. In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party. Pastoralists learned from experience and informal diffusion of knowledge, that there were distinct financial advantages in paddocking sheep rather than shepherding them. Many of the early fences were brush or log, and many squatters went directly from shepherding to wire fences. With strychnine controlling dingoes, and better land tenure, conditions were ripe for the end of shepherding. As sheep became more numerous by the 1830s, there were too few convicts for all the shepherding, so ticket-of-leave men and emancipists were employed. During the gold rushes, at least some wives and children took over shepherding while the male was off at the diggings. Shepherding was slow, unskilled, interminably monotonous, safe and done on foot. Although shepherding now seems quaint, it was and remains an ideal sheep management system under a broad range of social, cultural and environmental conditions. Subsequent legislation varied the conditions, but the essential requirement of fencing remained, thus hastening the spread of fences, and the end of shepherding. There is some irony that earlier observers criticised shepherding from fixed huts and hurdle yards as causing similar problems. Unfortunately, there are no statistics before 1886 showing the change in management from shepherding to paddocking. It was the sedentary nature of shepherding that led to many problems recognised by early flockowners, and pre-conditioned them to accept more readily some of the subsequent changes. When the country was first taken up in the fifties it was pretty much all alike; and in the shepherding times, which continued up to about 1874, when fencing began. Allied to the central myth are several others, masquerading as explanations for the transition from shepherding to fencing. 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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