livestock

IPA/ˈlaɪvstɒk/
KK[lˈaɪvstˌɑk]IPA/ˈlaɪvstɑːk/

livestock — 名詞

1. Cows, sheep, chickens, and other animals that people raise on a farm to sell or

1.名詞B1
釋義

牲畜

農場飼養的動物

Cows, sheep, chickens, and other animals that people raise on a farm to sell or use for things like meat, milk, eggs, or wool.

例句

Ravi spent every morning feeding the livestock before heading to school.

Ravi 每天早上都要先餵完牲畜才去上學。

collocation: feed the livestock

The Han family earns most of their income from selling livestock at the weekly market.

Han 家最主要的收入來源是在每週的市場販賣牲畜。

collocation: sell livestock

常見搭配
  • raise livestock
  • keep livestock
  • sell livestock
  • feed livestock
  • livestock farming
  • livestock market
  • livestock production
  • livestock industry
  • head of livestock
  • livestock auction
同義詞
  • cattle

    refers specifically to cows and bulls, not to chickens, sheep, or pigs

  • farm animals

    a more everyday, informal term; livestock has a commercial or agricultural tone

  • stock

    shorter term used in farming and business contexts, but can be confused with financial stock

  • herds

    focuses on groups of grazing animals, not poultry or pigs

文法句型

livestock + verb (singular/plural depending on collective interpretation)

用法筆記

Always used as an uncountable noun. Do not add -s for the plural. Refers to farm animals as a collective group; an individual animal is called a cow, sheep, chicken, etc., not 'a livestock'. Can take either a singular or a plural verb depending on whether the group is thought of as a single unit ('The livestock is kept in the barn') or as individuals ('The livestock are grazing in different fields').

常見錯誤

The farmer has five livestocks.
The farmer has fifty head of livestock.
Livestock is uncountable; use 'head of' to count individual animals.
I bought a livestock from the market.
I bought a goat from the market.
Livestock refers to the whole group, not a single animal.

同根字

  • stock
    名詞B2
  • stockman
    名詞C1
  • stockbreeding
    名詞C1
  • stockyard
    名詞C1

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • livestock farming
  • livestock industry
  • livestock market
  • livestock feed
  • livestock auction
  • livestock insurance

常用片語

  • head of livestock
  • raise livestock
  • keep livestock
  • sell livestock

介系詞搭配

  • livestock on [a farm]
  • livestock in [a region]