Breed

(noun.) a special type; 'Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs'.

(noun.) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; 'he experimented on a particular breed of white rats'; 'he created a new strain of sheep'.

(verb.) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); 'pandas rarely breed in captivity'; 'These bacteria reproduce'.

(verb.) cause to procreate (animals); 'She breeds dogs'.

(verb.) copulate with a female, used especially of horses; 'The horse covers the mare'.

校对:马里恩

• In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Issus would wipe out your entire breed an' you ever came within sight of her temple. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I am told you had a remarkable breed of tumblers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• How many animals there are which will not breed, though kept in an almost free state in their native country! 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face, in length and breadth and curvature, differs enormously. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very different coo from the other breeds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As he said, Business breeds. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Several other less distinct breeds might be specified. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The offered hand--rather large, but beautifully formed--was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A doleful place to be born and bred in, Tattycoram? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Bred in the country, he had attentively observed the effect of lightning on trees and cattle. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Wasn't I a woman delicately bred; and he,--God in heaven! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• As to Twemlow, he is so sensible of being a much better bred man than Veneering, that he considers the large man an offensive ass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Next came Napier, who, with his usual ill-breeding, began to whisper in Julia's ear. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Do you think, because I am a governess, I have not as much sense, and feeling, and good breeding as you gentlefolks in Hampshire? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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