Calve

(verb.) birth; 'the whales calve at this time of year'.

(verb.) release ice; 'The icebergs and glaciers calve'.

杰拉尔德编辑

• He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He bites footmen's calves. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Parchment manufactured from the skins of young calves, kids, lambs, sheep, and goats, was an early rival of papyrus, and was known and used in Europe before papyrus was there introduced. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There are perhaps some little calves, some little new-yeaned lambs--it may be twins, whose mothers have rejected them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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