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词汇 horseflesh
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Definition of horseflesh in English:

horseflesh

nounˈhɔːsflɛʃˈhɔrsˌflɛʃ
mass noun
  • 1Horses considered collectively.

    总称

    he's the best judge of horseflesh for miles around
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the wooing scene, Petruchio assesses Kate as though she were a piece of horseflesh, checking her ‘gait’ for imperfections.
    • She's a sweet women, but not very wise about horseflesh.
    • Forget your Doncasters and your Melbourne Cups, exciting as they are, this is the real McCoy, the fair-dinkum decider of the best horseflesh in Australasia.
    • For the rest of us, as always, the sweet smell of horseflesh is the only tonic.
    • It's a sensible move by Murtagh, though most Flat jockeys that I know would run a mile rather than ride over fences, since they correctly reason that controlling a half-ton of horseflesh is hard enough without putting obstacles in your way.
    • She barely notices the prime horseflesh a few hundred feet away.
    • Beyond the whitewashed plank fences grazed the most expensive horseflesh I'd ever set eyes on.
    • They were already on equal terms in judging horseflesh and in another year Joe would be as good a breaker as Adam was.
    • They were, of course, much nearer the blends of Arab and Arabian blood to which we are indebted for everything we prize most in horseflesh.
    • A double-massed queue of drivers stared at me in amazement: a wet, staggering Scotsman tugging and pleading and swearing at a stationary mound of horseflesh.
    • Royal Ascot is traditionally a high-point in the social calendar when fashion competes with horseflesh for attention.
    • He may be a painter of horses, but while he studied them in detail and rendered them truer to life than any artist had before, it was life itself, rather than horseflesh, which was Stubbs' true subject.
    • But when two wealthy men bid head-to-head, it isn't just about horseflesh and bloodlines.
    • His genius as a handler of horseflesh has long been acknowledged.
    • He must have been bred by someone with a great eye for horseflesh.
    • Unfortunately, Cromwell, with his eye for good horseflesh, noticed Cecil's horse and called him over to inquire about the animal.
    • Catching him looking at her in a mirror during their engagement, she sees herself as he sees her, ‘with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’.
    • Last year's Cox Plate performance, in a race rated the true test of Australasian horseflesh, was nothing short of phenomenal.
    • Yes, well, women have been treated like horseflesh for thousands of years.
    • Half a ton of horseflesh running scared across a battlefield is a frightening and dangerous prospect.
    1. 1.1 The flesh of a horse, especially when used as food.
      (尤指作为食品的)马肉
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Because horses in America are not food animals, veterinarians commonly prescribe and treat horses with potent drugs that may reside in the horseflesh and be dangerous when consumed by humans.
      • This repulsive figure is eternally farting; his stinking bowels suffering from his apparently endless consumption of discount horseflesh and champagne.
      • Forbidden to surrender the Sixth Army struggled on in the final weeks of January 1943 eating raw horseflesh, with no medicine for wounds and no anaesthetic for surgery.
      • A measure introduced in the United States Senate on Monday would permanently ban horse slaughter for human consumption as well as the international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption.
      • Horsehide is not quite as readily available as cowhide - we don't eat many horses in America, but the French and Belgians love to munch on horseflesh, so most of the hides come from Europe.
      • British officers pencilled out amusing menus featuring horseflesh and one Major Stewart's ‘devoted batman was killed while bringing his mule-steak lunch to his dug-out’.
      • The purpose was to safeguard the export of meat products to countries which prohibited the marketing of horseflesh.
      • Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
      • The market for British horseflesh on the continent has doubled over the last five years.
      • The horrors of the trench - rotting horseflesh, mud, poor food, weapons that would not fire, poison gas and the sheer terror of waiting for death - these were the images and experience of the Great War.
      • Otto Herz and Eugen Pfizenmayer, who made the discovery, wondered if they shouldn't eat it, rather than continue to subsist on horseflesh.

Definition of horseflesh in US English:

horseflesh

nounˈhôrsˌfleSHˈhɔrsˌflɛʃ
  • 1Horses considered collectively.

    总称

    he's the best judge of horseflesh for miles around
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were already on equal terms in judging horseflesh and in another year Joe would be as good a breaker as Adam was.
    • She barely notices the prime horseflesh a few hundred feet away.
    • Unfortunately, Cromwell, with his eye for good horseflesh, noticed Cecil's horse and called him over to inquire about the animal.
    • He may be a painter of horses, but while he studied them in detail and rendered them truer to life than any artist had before, it was life itself, rather than horseflesh, which was Stubbs' true subject.
    • Royal Ascot is traditionally a high-point in the social calendar when fashion competes with horseflesh for attention.
    • They were, of course, much nearer the blends of Arab and Arabian blood to which we are indebted for everything we prize most in horseflesh.
    • But when two wealthy men bid head-to-head, it isn't just about horseflesh and bloodlines.
    • During the wooing scene, Petruchio assesses Kate as though she were a piece of horseflesh, checking her ‘gait’ for imperfections.
    • Last year's Cox Plate performance, in a race rated the true test of Australasian horseflesh, was nothing short of phenomenal.
    • For the rest of us, as always, the sweet smell of horseflesh is the only tonic.
    • His genius as a handler of horseflesh has long been acknowledged.
    • Catching him looking at her in a mirror during their engagement, she sees herself as he sees her, ‘with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’.
    • Half a ton of horseflesh running scared across a battlefield is a frightening and dangerous prospect.
    • It's a sensible move by Murtagh, though most Flat jockeys that I know would run a mile rather than ride over fences, since they correctly reason that controlling a half-ton of horseflesh is hard enough without putting obstacles in your way.
    • Yes, well, women have been treated like horseflesh for thousands of years.
    • Forget your Doncasters and your Melbourne Cups, exciting as they are, this is the real McCoy, the fair-dinkum decider of the best horseflesh in Australasia.
    • She's a sweet women, but not very wise about horseflesh.
    • A double-massed queue of drivers stared at me in amazement: a wet, staggering Scotsman tugging and pleading and swearing at a stationary mound of horseflesh.
    • Beyond the whitewashed plank fences grazed the most expensive horseflesh I'd ever set eyes on.
    • He must have been bred by someone with a great eye for horseflesh.
    1. 1.1 The flesh of a horse, especially when used as food.
      (尤指作为食品的)马肉
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Because horses in America are not food animals, veterinarians commonly prescribe and treat horses with potent drugs that may reside in the horseflesh and be dangerous when consumed by humans.
      • Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
      • This repulsive figure is eternally farting; his stinking bowels suffering from his apparently endless consumption of discount horseflesh and champagne.
      • Horsehide is not quite as readily available as cowhide - we don't eat many horses in America, but the French and Belgians love to munch on horseflesh, so most of the hides come from Europe.
      • The purpose was to safeguard the export of meat products to countries which prohibited the marketing of horseflesh.
      • The horrors of the trench - rotting horseflesh, mud, poor food, weapons that would not fire, poison gas and the sheer terror of waiting for death - these were the images and experience of the Great War.
      • Otto Herz and Eugen Pfizenmayer, who made the discovery, wondered if they shouldn't eat it, rather than continue to subsist on horseflesh.
      • Forbidden to surrender the Sixth Army struggled on in the final weeks of January 1943 eating raw horseflesh, with no medicine for wounds and no anaesthetic for surgery.
      • The market for British horseflesh on the continent has doubled over the last five years.
      • British officers pencilled out amusing menus featuring horseflesh and one Major Stewart's ‘devoted batman was killed while bringing his mule-steak lunch to his dug-out’.
      • A measure introduced in the United States Senate on Monday would permanently ban horse slaughter for human consumption as well as the international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption.
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