heifer

英 ['hef?] 美['h?f?]

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復數:?heifers;

1. 國際小母牛組織（Heifer International）是一家位于美國阿肯色州小石城的一家非盈利性慈善機構，致力于救助全球貧困與饑餓。國際小母牛組織向全球范圍內的貧困家庭提供家畜、農作物以及可持續農業教育等。

heifer 未生育過的小母牛

來自古英語heahfore,詞源不詳。可能來自古英語heag,交配，fearr,公牛。即正在與公牛交配的母牛。

heifer (n.): Old English heahfore, West Saxon; Northumbrian hehfaro, heffera (plural), of unknown origin, not found outside English. The first element seems to be heah "high," common in Old English compounds with a sense of "great in size." The second element may be related to Old English fearr "bull," or to Old English faran "to go" (giving the whole a sense of "high-stepper"); but there are serious sense difficulties with both conjectures. Liberman offers this alternative:
Old English seems to have had the word *h?gfore 'heifer.' The first element (*h?g-) presumably meant 'enclosure' (as do haw and hedge), whereas -fore was a suffix meaning 'dweller, occupant' ....
In modern use a female that has not yet calved, as opposed to a cow, which has, and a calf, which is an animal of either sex not more than a year old. As derisive slang for "a woman, girl" it dates from 1835.

2. An American farmer named Dan West developed the idea for Heifer International.: 一個名叫丹?韋斯特的美國農夫提出國際小母牛的構想.

3. They black heifer chalk , said ,'she is white , Bos cretatus. ": 他們替一頭小黑牛抹上石膏粉, 便說: “ 你已經白了. ”

5. The goddess delivered the heifer to Argus, to be strictly watched.: 那女神就把這頭小母牛交給阿爾戈斯嚴加看管.