Why can't the herd be thinned the old-fashioned way?
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
N-COUNT
獸群;畜群
A herd is a large group of animals of one kind that live together.
例句
...large herds of elephant and buffalo.大群的大象和水牛...dairy herds.奶牛群
N-SING
（缺乏獨立思想的）一般民眾，蕓蕓眾生
If you say that someone has joined the herd or follows the herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves.
例句
They are individuals; they will not follow the herd.他們是獨立的個體，不愿隨大溜。
VERB
使集在一起;把…趕在一起
If you herd people somewhere, you make them move there in a group.
例句
He began to herd the prisoners out...他開始將犯人集中在一起趕出來。The group was herded into a bus.這群人被趕上了一輛公共汽車。
VERB
驅趕，牧放（畜群）
If you herd animals, you make them move along as a group.
例句
Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep...斯特凡諾騎一輛摩托車放羊。A boy herded half a dozen camels down towards the water trough.一個男孩趕著6頭駱駝朝飲水槽走去。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
獸群, 牧群
She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她趕著牛群穿過荒野。
[the ~][貶義]民眾, 群眾
“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow”(Henry David Thoreau)“是奢侈和放蕩的人制造了民眾孜孜不倦地追求的時尚”(亨利·戴維·索羅)
vt. & vi.
群集, 糾結
They herded into the corner.他們往角落里聚集。
vt.
放牧
The little boy is herding the cattle.這個小男孩在放牛。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
2. a group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
3. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things;
"his brilliance raised him above the ruck""the children resembled a fairy herd"
Verb
1. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;
"We herded the children into a spare classroom"
2. move together, like a herd
3. keep, move, or drive animals;
"Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"