yean
yean — 動詞
- yeanpresent simple I / you / we / they
- yeans3rd person singular
- yeaning-ing form
- yeanedpast simple
1. if a female sheep or goat yeans, it gives birth to its young; the word is used m
產羔；產仔
指綿羊或山羊分娩
if a female sheep or goat yeans, it gives birth to its young; the word is used mainly in older farming or literary writing.
The old ewe yeaned a healthy lamb just before dawn.
那頭老母羊在黎明前產下一隻健康的小羊。
subject: ewe; object: lamb
The farmer stayed up all night watching the goats yean.
農夫整晚沒睡，觀察山羊生產。
intransitive use: watch + animal + infinitive
When the goat yeaned twins, the children ran to tell their mother.
那頭山羊生下雙胞胎時，孩子們跑去找媽媽報喜。
The shepherd wrote down the date each ewe yeaned in his notebook.
牧羊人在筆記本上記下每頭母羊產羔的日期。
Snow fell as the first ewe of the season yeaned her lamb in the barn.
雪花飄落之際，本季第一頭母羊在穀倉裡產下小羊。
- lamb
used specifically for sheep giving birth; far more common than yean in modern farming
- kid
used specifically for goats giving birth; also more common than yean today
- give birth
the neutral, everyday verb for any animal or human; always correct and never archaic
文法句型
yean + (object: lamb/kid)
subject (ewe/doe/goat) + yean
用法筆記
Virtually never used in modern everyday conversation. Learners may encounter it in historical fiction, older poetry, or dialect writing. For modern contexts, use give birth or lamb / kid (verb).