| 单词 | 领头 |
| 释义 | 〔headmost〕Leading; foremost.领头的；最前面的〔wingman〕A pilot whose plane is positioned behind and outside the leader in a formation of flying aircraft.僚机飞行员：偏队飞行机群中位于领头飞机后边或外围的飞机的飞行员〔imam〕The male prayer leader in a mosque.伊玛目：清真寺内作礼拜时领头的男人〔mill〕Tomill, in Western U.S. English, means "to halt a cattle stampede by turning the lead animals.”In theOxford English Dictionary we find this 19th-century example of the verb: "At last the cattle ran with less energy, and it was presently easy to ‘mill’ them into a circle and to turn them where it seemed most desirable" (Munsey's Magazine).This usage ofmill comes from the resemblance of the cattle's circular motion to the action of millstones. A related intransitive sense of the verb is better known in Standard English: A crowd milled around in the street. Originally this sense ofmill also meant "circular motion"; now it means "to move around in churning confusion"with no pattern in particular.Mill 这个词在美国西部所说的英语中， 意为“通过让领头牲畜绕圈子跑来制止牛群的惊跑”。在牛津英语词典 中， 我们可以找到该动词19世纪用法的例子： “最后牛群终于跑得快没劲儿了，这时候可以容易地驱赶头牛，把其它牛绕进圈子里，然后把它们赶到最合适的地方去” （芒西杂志）。Mill 的这种用法来自牛群绕圈跑与磨石运作的相似之处。 该词作不及物动词时所具有的与此相关的意义在标准英语中更为常见： 一群人在大街上兜圈子。 Mill 的这一含义本来亦指“旋转运动”； 现在它指“在旋涡般的混乱中到处移动”，不再有其它特指〔poleax〕"When a gang of doves circled above the flowing water and swooped in to feed, he poleaxed the leader with a clean head shot"(William Hoffman)“当一群鸽子在淙淙的流水上盘旋了一阵扑下来找食时，他头一枪就干净利落地把领头的一只撂倒了”(威廉·霍夫曼) |
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