cote
cote — 名詞
1. a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or oth
禽舍；棚舍
圈養鴿子或羊隻的小棚
a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or other tame animals safe overnight.
Felipe whitewashed the old pigeon cote behind the barn before spring arrived.
Felipe 在春天到來前，把穀倉後面那座舊鴿舍重新粉刷過。
compound: pigeon cote
Every evening, Meera shooed the doves back into the wooden cote near the orchard.
Meera 每天傍晚把鴿子趕回果園旁的木棚裡。
into the cote (returning home)
A fox slipped through a gap in the sheep cote and frightened the new lambs.
一隻狐狸從羊棚的縫隙鑽進去，把新生的小羊嚇了一跳。
compound: sheep cote
The estate map from 1820 marked a small dovecote at the edge of the kitchen garden.
1820 年的莊園地圖在菜園邊角標出了一座小鴿舍。
common compound form: dovecote
- pigeon cote
- dovecote
- sheep cote
- in the cote
文法句型
a [animal] cote
in / inside the cote
用法筆記
Today the bare word 'cote' is rare on its own; you mostly meet it as part of compounds like 'dovecote', 'pigeon cote', or 'sheep cote'. Mostly found in rural, historical, or literary writing rather than in everyday conversation.
常見錯誤
cote — 動詞
- cotepresent simple I / you / we / they
- cotes3rd person singular
- coting-ing form
- cotedpast simple
1. in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chas
超越；趕過
舊式狩獵中獵犬追過另一隻
in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chase.
Owen watched in delight as his greyhound coted the rival pack on the open moor.
Owen 看著他的灰狗在曠野上把對手的獵犬群一隻隻趕過，心裡非常滿意。
cote + animal (in chase)
The fastest hound of the day coted three others before reaching the wounded deer.
當天最快的那隻獵犬一連超越了三隻同伴，才接近那頭受傷的鹿。
cote + multiple rivals
In his old hunting diary, Sari read how the spaniel coted the leading dog at the bend.
Sari 從舊獵記日誌裡讀到，那隻獵犬在轉彎處超越了領頭的犬。
literary/historical use of cote
Shakespeare uses the word when describing how one greyhound cotes another in full chase.
莎士比亞曾用這個字來描寫一隻灰狗在追逐中超越另一隻。
found in early modern English texts
- cote a hound
- cote the pack
- cote the hare
- trail
lag behind rather than pass
文法句型
cote + noun
用法筆記
Almost never met in modern English; survives mainly in old hunting manuals, dictionaries of obsolete words, and one well-known Shakespeare reference. Subject is a hunting dog; object is another dog or the prey animal it overtakes.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- pigeon cote
- dovecote
- sheep cote
常用片語
- return to the cote
- build a cote
介系詞搭配
- in (the cote)
- into (the cote)
- out of (the cote)