Foal

(noun.) a young horse.

(verb.) give birth to a foal; 'the mare foaled'.

埃尔伯特编辑

• I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He rode into the city upon the foal of an ass that had been borrowed by his disciples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The stripes are often plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disappear in old horses. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It has been asserted that these are plainest in the foal, and from inquiries which I have made, I believe this to be true. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Thou art no colt of a girl with cropped head and the movement of a foal still wet from its mother. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Colonel Poole has seen both gray and bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

校对:路易斯