buffalo
英 ['bʌfələʊ]
美['bʌfəlo]
- n. [畜牧][脊椎] 水牛；[脊椎] 野牛（产于北美）；水陆两用坦克
- n. (Buffalo)人名；(英)布法罗
词态变化
复数: buffaloes; buffalo;
助记提示
布法罗（水牛城）--- 美国城市名。
中文词源
buffalo 水牛
词源同bov, 牛，见bovine, 牛的。
英英释意
- 1. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
- 2. meat from an American bison
- 3. any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
英文词源
- buffalo
- buffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the ‘water buffalo’, Bubalis bubalis, a large oxlike animal of Asia and Africa, and subsequently extended to the ‘Cape buffalo’ of South Africa, Syncerus caffer. The Portuguese word came from late Latin bufalus, an alteration of Latin bubalus, which was borrowed from Greek boúbalos. The Greek word, which seems to have named a type of African gazelle, may have been formed from bous ‘ox’. The application of the word to the North American bison, which is still regarded as ‘incorrect’, dates from the late 18th century.
=> buff - buffalo (n.)
- 1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from Middle French), from Portuguese bufalo "water buffalo," from Latin bufalus, variant of bubalus "wild ox," from Greek boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, perhaps from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822.
- Buffalo
- city in western New York state, U.S., of disputed origin (there never were buffalo thereabouts), perhaps from the name of a native chief, or a corruption of French beau fleuve "beautiful river." Buffalo wings finger food so called because the recipe was invented in Buffalo (1964, at Frank & Teressa's Anchor Bar on Main Street).
- buffalo (v.)
- "alarm, overawe," 1900, from buffalo (n.). Probably from the animals' tendency to mass panic. Related: Buffaloed; buffaloing.
同义词辨析
ox, bull, cow, buffalo
这些名词均有"牛"之意。
ox： 泛指野生或驯养的牛类，系动物学的用词，通称，也指公牛。
bull： 指未经阉割，通常用于配种的公牛，也指西班牙或美洲经专门饲料用作斗牛表演的公牛。引申指彪形大汉。
cow： 指任何品种的成年母牛或乳用的乳牛。
buffalo： 指水牛，在美国指野牛。
考试真题
- If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.
2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
- wind chills were 64 degrees below zero in Park Rapids, minnesota and 45 degrees below zero in Buffalo, North Dakota, according to the National Weather Service.
2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
实用场景例句
- He tried to buffalo me at first meeting but I soon caught on to his tricks.
- 初次见面时他企图欺骗我,但是我很快就明白了他耍的花招.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- A herd of water buffalo charges down a dirt road in rural Laos.
- 一群水牛在老挝的一条乡村土路上横冲直撞.
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- You can see the fresh buffalo dung on the country road.
- 你可以在乡间小路上看到刚屙下不久的水牛粪.
《简明英汉词典》
- Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's.
- 亚洲水牛比美国水牛温顺些.
《简明英汉词典》
- It did! People still travel to Buffalo today to experience the original wings.
- 的确是. 现在仍有人千里迢迢到水牛城来品尝地道的原味鸡翅.
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- Calf ( to mother buffalo ): Mummy, will you please jump up and down?
- 小牛 ( 对水牛妈妈说 ): 妈妈, 请你上下跳跳好 吗 ?
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- Attacking the buffalo from every direction the pride works together to topple its quarry.
- 狮群从各个方向攻击这头水牛,一起合力掀翻它们的猎物.
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- Apparently, only water buffalo down a drink in one go, and dogs take two sips.
- 很显然, 一口而进是牛饮, 两口喝完是家犬.
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- We believe in dust, tumbleweeds, buffalo, mountain ranges and riding off into the sunset.
- 我们相信沙尘, 风滚草, 野牛,列队遨游群山, 和驰向夕阳.
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- The auction is for a roll of BUFFALO nickels. 40 NICKELS ALL HAVE DATES.
- 拍卖是一个水牛硬币滚动. 40尼克尔斯都有日期.
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- The board couldn't buffalo the federal courts as it had the Comptroller.
- 董事会无法蒙骗联邦法庭乃因他们有了稽核人员.
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- This is also so for the buffalo species.
- 水牛物种也是如此.
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- So far , 1,100 winning tickets have been turned in, all, strangely, from the Buffalo area.
- 超过11000人中奖, 非常奇怪的是, 都在巴甫洛地区.
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- Substitute a side salad, onion rings, Buffalo Chips or potato wedges for an additional charge.
- 另付差价可换:配菜沙拉 、 洋葱圈 、 布法罗薯片或者薯条.
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- Tom a B . S . in Computer Science of University of Buffalo.
- 汤姆毕业于纽约布法罗大学,主修电子计算机科学.
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- American playwright whose works include American Buffalo ( 1975 ) and Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1984 ).
- 马梅,戴维生于1947美国剧作家,作品包括美洲水牛 ( 1975年 ) 和便帽、峡谷和树皮 ( 1984年 )
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- Some have asked to camp near the buffalo pasture.
- 有些人要求在水牛牧场附近扎营.
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- PJ'S Buffalo Bill to grow a new coat.
- 珠子的布法罗草案增加了新的大衣.
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- B : Everybody in Buffalo is going to Canada to fill up his tank.
- 布法罗的每一个人都到加拿大去装满他的油箱.
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- Clerk: One via Pittsburgh leaves at 2:45 p.m. and one via Buffalo leaves at 6:45 p.m.
- 职员: 两班;经匹兹堡的是下午两点四十五,经水牛城的下午六点四十五.
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- We also offer cow and buffalo from garments companies and shoe leather tanneries.
- 我们还供应来自服装企业和鞋类制革厂的母牛皮和水牛皮.
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- The water buffalo squelched up and down the paddy fields, pulling the plough.
- 水牛拉着犁,在稻田里咕唧咕唧地走着.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The bison, or buffalo, was an endangered species in the United States.
- 北美野牛或水牛是美国境内濒临绝种的动物.
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- Agent Starling, how did you track Buffalo Bill here?
- 史达琳探员, 你怎么追查到水牛比尔在这里的?
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- Great herds of buffalo migrated across the plains.
- 大群野牛迁徙过平原.
《简明英汉词典》
- When Is the Next Bus to Buffalo?
- 下一班到布法罗的公共汽车几点开?
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- Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains.
- 北美大平原上曾有过7,000万头野牛。
柯林斯例句
- A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.
- 一群秃鹫蹲伏在一具野牛的尸体上。
柯林斯例句
- The festival commemorates the slaying of the demon buffalo.
- 那个节日是为了纪念杀死魔牛。
柯林斯例句