bull

英 [bʊl] 美 [bʊl]

• n. 公牛；股市看涨的人；<俚>警察
• n. 荒谬的话
• n. 教皇诏书
• adj. 公牛的；鲁莽的

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]公牛; 雄兽

   that adult male form of cattle, supposed to be fierce and hard to control, kept on farms to be the parent of young cattle

2. [C]买进证券投机图利者,(对股市行情)看涨的人

   a person who buys business shares or goods in expectation of a price rise or who acts to cause such a rise

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 公牛
2. 多头
3. 买方
4. 工头
5. 雄兽，雄性大动物
6. 行情看涨者
7. <美俚>警察
8. <口>靶心
9. 中心目标
10. 彪形大汉，壮汉
11. <俚>胡说，废话
12. 训令，法令
13. 教皇的诏书
14. 自相矛盾的荒谬说法
15. <美俚>大错
16. 公文
17. 雄象
18. 雄鲸
19. 布尔（1810-1880，挪威小提琴手）

adj. 形容词

1. 雄的，公的
2. 公牛的
3. 公牛般的，公牛一样的
4. 大号的，大型的
5. 行情上涨的
6. 做多头的
7. 【商】买方的
8. 哄台证券价格的
9. 雄兽的

v. 动词

1. <美俚>吓唬
2. 欺骗
3. 上涨
4. 猛力前进
5. <俚>聊天
6. 强使…通过（路）
7. 挤出（路），强行挤过
8. 哄抬…的价格，哄抬（证券等的行情）
9. 做多头，做买方
10. 排除困难前进，奋力前行
11. 【海】猛撞
12. 推
13. 强迫
14. 吹牛，瞎扯

英英释义

Noun:

1. uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

2. a large and strong and heavyset man;

   "he was a bull of a man"
   "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
   

3. obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

   "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"
   "what he said was mostly bull"
   

4. a serious and ludicrous blunder;

   "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
   

5. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

6. an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

7. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

8. the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

9. the center of a target

10. a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

11. mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

Verb:

1. push or force;

   "He bulled through his demands"
   

2. try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

3. speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths;

   "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
   

4. advance in price;

   "stocks were bulling"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The bull bellowed angrily.
   公牛怒吼起来。
2. His bull will come to serve our cows tomorrow.
   明天我们用他的公牛与我们的母牛配种。
3. A bull market is a situation in which share prices are rising.
   牛市是指股价不断攀升的行情。

用作名词 (n.)

1. He likes to throw the bull.
   他喜欢吹牛。
2. Don't listen to his cock and bull story.
   别听他那荒诞的故事。
3. Get along with you. It's a cock and bull story.
   去你的, 这是无稽之谈。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The pope issued a bull declaring that abortion was not approved by the church.
   教皇发布训令，宣布堕胎不被教堂认可。

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Still another depicted Europa deceived by Jupiter under the disguise of a bull.
   再一幅是描写欧罗巴尼如何被化身成公牛的朱庇特所欺骗。
2. A slow exposure blurs the charge of a bull at a bullfight in Arequipa, Peru.
   在秘鲁阿雷基帕一场斗牛赛中，相机的缓速曝光将这张公牛的攻击姿势拍得模糊不清。
3. He is a bull man.
   他是个鲁莽的人。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. This is a bull.
   这是一头公牛。
2. He was a great bull of a man.
   他是一个体壮如牛的人。
3. The bull elephant is attacking us.
   这头公象正要攻击我们。
4. We can see through all that bull.
   我们能识破那套胡诌。

经典引文

• 'Pipe down!' a bull voice called out.

  出自： J. T. Farrell

• A mature bull elk bugling his mating call.

  出自： W. P. Keller

• A bull neck almost the same size round as his head.

  出自： R. West

• The only weak brother I am willing to consider is (to make a bull for once), my wife.

  出自： R. L. Stevenson

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

a bull in a china shop

笨手笨脚到处闯祸之人 a rough and careless person in a place where skill and care are needed

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• milk the bull 做徒劳无益的事
• shoot the bull 吹牛

～+名词

• bull elephant 公象
• bull market 多头市场
• bull neck 短粗的脖子

介词+～

• like bull 凶猛的

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. bull的基本意思是未阉割的公牛。用于比喻时,可指“体壮如牛的人”; 也可指某些陆地或海洋中躯体庞大的“雄性动物”。
2. bull还可指证券交易所中,买进股票以期不久可高价卖出的人。
3. bull用于俚语时,可作“胡说八道,吹牛”解。

词义辨析

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养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。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的bula，意为公牛。

近反义词

【近义词】

• decree 法令
• official statement 正式声明
• encyclical 传阅的
• instruction 指令
• edict 法令
• proclamation 宣言
• Taurus 金牛座
• bullshit 胡说
• horseshit <粗俗> 胡说...
• bruiser 彪形大汉
• shit 表示愤怒、厌恶等的感叹词...
• crap <俚>废话
• bull's eye 靶心
• fuzz <非正式> 细毛...
• papal bull 教皇印玺
• strapper 彪形大汉
• dogshit <粗>狗屎
• pig 猪
• talk through one's hat 胡说八道
• Irish bull 自相矛盾的说法...
• Samson 大力士
• bull through 硬挤
• copper 铜
• cop 纺锤状线团、管纱...
• fake 假的
• buffalo 水牛
• ox 牛
• cow 母牛

【反义词】

• cow