Definition of lamb in English:

lamb

noun lamlæm

1A young sheep.
小绵羊，羔羊
Example sentencesExamples
- We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs.
- Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep.
- I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.
- They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs.
- However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs.
- Have members ever seen a lamb or sheep die from flyblow?
- More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable.
- A baby lamb born weighing less than a bag of sugar has defied all the odds.
- The buoyant trade also led to more ewe lambs being slaughtered rather than being retained for breeding.
- The newborn lambs are brought into the house when it's cold and fed by hand.
- Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet.
- In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia.
- A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears.
- The result is a nicely marked speckled faced ewe lamb with good confirmation and vigor.
- Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well.
- - People have made complaints on the program's website that heavily pregnant ewes and newborn lambs were mustered.
- They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets.
- For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks.
- A total of 9,000 sheep and lambs were slaughtered.
- Certainly, opening the American border to sheep and lambs should not be near as difficult as opening it to cattle, since, I repeat, sheep do not get BSE.
1. 1.1mass noun The flesh of a lamb as food.
  羔羊肉
  we had roast lamb for supper
  as modifier lamb chops
  Example sentencesExamples
  Season the lamb with salt and pepper and add to the pan.
  Forty per cent of Irish spring lamb, she says, is sold on the home market.
  You need best end of neck lamb chops but don't over-trim them; leave a little fat on for flavour.
  I was preparing lamb chops, according to a recipe from Jamie's Dinners.
  I personally like the lamb cutlets, although they can be a little tough.
  This light, slightly racy red wine would match well with grilled meats, salmon, lamb or pork.
  I recommend a light, acidic Beaujolais Villages as your wine partner to a lamb curry.
  Mr. Deacon said spring lamb prices will be set by the strong domestic market demand and scarce supplies.
  Yes, pork fat is higher in unsaturated fatty acids than beef, veal, or lamb fat.
  Grilled steak, pork roast, sautéed lamb chops, or roast chicken would make a perfect pairing.
  William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank.
  Sunday roasts - lamb, beef and pork - were available, as was half a roast chicken.
  They're typically stuffed with a rice and meat mixture, but with lamb chops as the centerpiece, do I really want to do meat in the stuffing?
  The roast lamb was a scrumptious mound of tender, smokey meat.
  Sundays would be the day that I properly cook something traditional like roast lamb.
  I dip a sprig of rosemary into the oil and place it over each lamb chop.
  Bertie had to admit the lamb stew was the best he ever tasted.
  Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne.
  Use enough stock to just barely cover the lamb shanks.
  We'll cook roast lamb and potatoes and indulgent desserts and scoff the whole thing ourselves.
2. 1.2 Used figuratively as a symbol of meekness or innocence.
  he accepted her decision like a lamb
  让她惊奇的是，他像羔羊般顺从地接受了她的决定。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For Christians there is the added symbolic significance that Jesus is regarded as the lamb of God.
  A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle.
  He was the sacrificial lamb without blemish, making an atonement to end all sacrifices.
  Yes, Kelley herself is not exactly an innocent lamb being led to media slaughter.
  Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be.
  Britney Spears, the wholesome princess of pop, and queen of semiconductor physics is not the harmless little lamb we all took her for.
  McDougal may not have been the most innocent of lambs, but it is clear that the Start Gestapo would not have pursued her had it not been for her friendship with the Clintons.
  It is worth recalling that however successful they eventually became, Ferranti Thistle were originally regarded as sacrificial lambs likely to surrender easy points to the existing clubs.
  Me, I'd rather sit here eating a Tootsie Roll Pop, innocent as a newborn lamb, and not worry about stuff like the police.
  McNulty: We are poor little lambs who have lost our way.
  I looked at the religious angle, the Christian / Pagan conflict, and the wolf as heretic symbol, as opposed to the Christian lamb.
  Even a man of Karsh's considerable charm couldn't have turned Churchill from lion to lamb in an instant.
  It's called the Wiffenpoof Song, and one line goes, ‘We're poor little lambs who have lost our way.’
  Jesus is the innocent lamb that is put to death to maintain peace.
  There are babes in Christ's family as well as old men; there are weak members of the mystical body as well as strong ones; there are tender lambs as well as sheep.
  Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace.
  The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red.
3. 1.3 Used to describe or address someone regarded with affection or pity, especially a young child.
  小家伙，小宝贝（尤指对孩子的怜爱或同情的描述或称呼）
  the poor lamb is very upset
  可怜的小家伙十分不快。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They seem to be okay now, though, the poor lambs.
  Oh, the inhumanity of it all, the snobbery, the poor lamb.
  As for the poor lambs, well they're still being killed.
  However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise.
  We are poor little lambs who have lost our way.
  Gary Neville's bleeding from the head, the poor lamb.
  How else would the poor lambs get a decent break before being slaughtered in the main event of the winter?
  ‘It turns out that, in the end, the British state still made a profit out of me,’ the poor lamb concluded.

verb lamlæm

1no object (of a ewe) give birth to lambs.
（母羊）产羔
Shetland sheep lamb very easily
Example sentencesExamples
- If the first few ewes lamb with poor milk supply - seek help and take action.
- With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply.
- Ewes that avoided the winter range, Wehausen found, lambed a month later than those that did not, and the snows and freezing temperatures took a heavy toll on lambs forced to overwinter on the mountaintops.
- The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes.
- Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted.
- On Friday night last a sheep lambed and as he watched the little lambs struggle to find their footing under the careful supervision of their mother he thought how oblivious they were to the turbulent world they had just entered.
- Ewes due to lamb, cows due to calve, ran terrified through fences.
- The RSPCA was the first agency to begin making a real difference to animal welfare problems when it became clear that thousands of ewes were lambing in appalling conditions, because of movement restrictions.
- The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it.
- I should during the winter keep about 70 half bred ewes and after they have lambed in spring sell about 20, keeping the other 50 and feed the lambs to sell, getting the ewes fat after having sold the lambs, to sell also.
- The lambs were nice and fat; Wehausen predicted that the female would be lambing by the next year.
- Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing.
- They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright.
- I'd have to sell the sheep which would be very stressful for them because they are lambing.
1. 1.1with object Tend (ewes) at lambing time.
  照看（产羔母羊）
  I lambed a flock of 30 ewes for a neighbour
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘All the ewes are lambed inside and stay inside for about 48 hours to mother them up so that they don't get separated when they go out, hopefully into the sunshine on Bredon Hill,’ Mr Freestone said.
  Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year.
  Ms Wright is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing.
  Adrian Bateson is lambing on the family farm and is unavailable.
  Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week.
  How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs?
  He also asked the pupils how many of them came from farms, and whether they were lambing at home.
  I, for my part, have to confess to you I have a little sheep farm and I was lambing before I came here this morning.
2lamb someone downAustralian NZ dated, informal with object Encourage someone to squander their money, especially on alcohol.
〈非正式〉怂恿（某人）大笔花钱（尤指花钱纵酒）
Pitt had been lambed down at the Pig and Whistle
皮特在皮克和威斯尔酒吧被诱大笔消费。

Phrases

in lamb

(of a ewe) pregnant.
（母羊）怀胎
ewes in lamb are marked with blue paint
Example sentencesExamples
- Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend.
- Hikers and dogs can also cause stress to ewes, which are heavy in lamb at this time of the year.
- Alas, poachers have again struck in Kwelera and just a few mornings ago a bush buck ewe, in lamb, was found just at the back door of a neighbour.
- I am an ex-farmer, and was very surprised to see ewes heavy in lamb being mustered.
- The rest of the flock are heavily in lamb but I won't be expecting any offspring as they are badly injured.
- Therefore all ewes could be safely in lamb by day 47 after the ram joins the flock.
- Now a fully-grown ram, registered as D' Artagnan, with the pet name Harry, he will be heading south with his ‘girlfriend’ Amanda Jane, who is in lamb, to take up residence on the Royal farm.
- The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes.
- In the biggest raid, 348 sheep were taken from a farm at Aislaby, near Whitby early on Wednesday morning; 251 of them were in lamb.
- If they are not in lamb by that stage there is something wrong.

the Lamb of God (also the Lamb)

A title of Jesus Christ (see John 1:29).
Example sentencesExamples
- Did he die as the Lamb of God - an atoning sacrifice to bear away our sins?
- Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, never sinned.
- We want our friends and neighbours to see him as he really is - not as a Hollywood hero but as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
- To borrow a phrase that St. Augustine loved to use, God's deepest desire at Mass is that we become the very thing that we receive, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
- In the Feast of the Passover we see Christ as the Lamb of God, shedding his precious blood to redeem his people.
- Roman Catholics point to the same event as the sacramental center of Christian life, with the words from the Gospel of John, ‘the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.’
- Jesus Christ is ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’.
- But was Judas necessary to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God?
- Why did God forsake The Lamb of God at the very moment of His Sacrifice?
- With this knowledge in our grasp we understand that what has gone wrong in our world is sin, and furthermore the only way to correct his problem is to have that sin remitted by the blood of the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

like a lamb to the slaughter

As a helpless victim.
怯弱无助地
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't know what I was thinking; I went into this gig like a lamb to the slaughter.
- I watched him move around the pre-op room, a handsome man in his scrubs, tall and strong, unlike poor me, lying there like a lamb to the slaughter.
- She must have known what was up when she saw the chaise but she gets in like a lamb to the slaughter.
- For the first time the audience knows what he does not know and cannot guess, that he is going like a lamb to the slaughter.
- But now he too is heading like a lamb to the slaughter: ‘in some far-off dawn a crumbling cross’ shall mark his gift.
- Jesus has chosen passivity - being ‘led like a lamb to the slaughter.’
- I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought I did and I was like a lamb to the slaughter because of it.
- I hadn't even realized we were so close to the dance floor until Jamie grabbed my hand and led me like a lamb to the slaughter, onto that floor and began to sway to the beat of the music with me in his arms.
- Thus, Labour chiefs believe Osborne will be like a lamb to the slaughter for Brown.
- Mike Pulsford, defending, said Penrose had arrived at court like a lamb to the slaughter knowing what sentence the youth court had already given to his accomplice.
Synonyms
submissive, yielding, unresisting, obedient, compliant, tame, biddable, tractable, acquiescent, deferential, weak, timid, frightened, spineless, spiritless, unprotesting, like a lamb to the slaughter

Derivatives

lamber

noun

During the lunch hour, I was waiting for the lambers to get back, and I waited all alone in a big field of about 100 pregnant ewes, the last of the herd to come through.
Example sentencesExamples
- A resumption of lamb sales in the marts would bring much needed competition to the sheep market and also allow hill sheep producers and late lambers to sell.
- Against all predictions, trade was better, especially in the Suffolk Cross breeding section, where purchasers were looking for a few early lambers.
- One of the lambers at this place was very disagreeable at first.

lamblike

adjective

Let's first review all the texts in the Bible pertaining to the mark of the beast and the worship of its image, and see how texts referring to the lamblike beast and the false prophet turn up as well.
Example sentencesExamples
- If the general was a tiger, his staff officers were selected from the lambs; if he was lamblike, then they were chosen for their tigerishness.
- Civil and religious liberty, so characteristic of America, are most appropriately represented by the two lamblike horns of this creature.
- Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.
- The camels ‘exhibited the most lamblike docility,’ the local newspaper reported.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm.

Rhymes

am, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam

Definition of lamb in US English:

lamb

nounlamlæm

1A young sheep.
小绵羊，羔羊
Example sentencesExamples
- For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks.
- - People have made complaints on the program's website that heavily pregnant ewes and newborn lambs were mustered.
- Certainly, opening the American border to sheep and lambs should not be near as difficult as opening it to cattle, since, I repeat, sheep do not get BSE.
- We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs.
- Have members ever seen a lamb or sheep die from flyblow?
- The buoyant trade also led to more ewe lambs being slaughtered rather than being retained for breeding.
- A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears.
- However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs.
- The result is a nicely marked speckled faced ewe lamb with good confirmation and vigor.
- A baby lamb born weighing less than a bag of sugar has defied all the odds.
- I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.
- In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia.
- They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs.
- More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable.
- The newborn lambs are brought into the house when it's cold and fed by hand.
- A total of 9,000 sheep and lambs were slaughtered.
- Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet.
- They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets.
- Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep.
- Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well.
1. 1.1 The flesh of young sheep as food.
  羔羊肉
  Example sentencesExamples
  Season the lamb with salt and pepper and add to the pan.
  Forty per cent of Irish spring lamb, she says, is sold on the home market.
  Mr. Deacon said spring lamb prices will be set by the strong domestic market demand and scarce supplies.
  Bertie had to admit the lamb stew was the best he ever tasted.
  We'll cook roast lamb and potatoes and indulgent desserts and scoff the whole thing ourselves.
  You need best end of neck lamb chops but don't over-trim them; leave a little fat on for flavour.
  I recommend a light, acidic Beaujolais Villages as your wine partner to a lamb curry.
  I was preparing lamb chops, according to a recipe from Jamie's Dinners.
  Use enough stock to just barely cover the lamb shanks.
  I personally like the lamb cutlets, although they can be a little tough.
  Sundays would be the day that I properly cook something traditional like roast lamb.
  William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank.
  They're typically stuffed with a rice and meat mixture, but with lamb chops as the centerpiece, do I really want to do meat in the stuffing?
  Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne.
  Sunday roasts - lamb, beef and pork - were available, as was half a roast chicken.
  Grilled steak, pork roast, sautéed lamb chops, or roast chicken would make a perfect pairing.
  The roast lamb was a scrumptious mound of tender, smokey meat.
  I dip a sprig of rosemary into the oil and place it over each lamb chop.
  Yes, pork fat is higher in unsaturated fatty acids than beef, veal, or lamb fat.
  This light, slightly racy red wine would match well with grilled meats, salmon, lamb or pork.
2. 1.2 Used figuratively as a symbol of meekness, gentleness, or innocence.
  〈喻〉温顺，柔弱
  to her amazement, he accepted her decision like a lamb
  让她惊奇的是，他像羔羊般顺从地接受了她的决定。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jesus is the innocent lamb that is put to death to maintain peace.
  Me, I'd rather sit here eating a Tootsie Roll Pop, innocent as a newborn lamb, and not worry about stuff like the police.
  McNulty: We are poor little lambs who have lost our way.
  The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red.
  It is worth recalling that however successful they eventually became, Ferranti Thistle were originally regarded as sacrificial lambs likely to surrender easy points to the existing clubs.
  McDougal may not have been the most innocent of lambs, but it is clear that the Start Gestapo would not have pursued her had it not been for her friendship with the Clintons.
  Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be.
  Yes, Kelley herself is not exactly an innocent lamb being led to media slaughter.
  There are babes in Christ's family as well as old men; there are weak members of the mystical body as well as strong ones; there are tender lambs as well as sheep.
  Even a man of Karsh's considerable charm couldn't have turned Churchill from lion to lamb in an instant.
  I looked at the religious angle, the Christian / Pagan conflict, and the wolf as heretic symbol, as opposed to the Christian lamb.
  It's called the Wiffenpoof Song, and one line goes, ‘We're poor little lambs who have lost our way.’
  For Christians there is the added symbolic significance that Jesus is regarded as the lamb of God.
  A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle.
  Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace.
  Britney Spears, the wholesome princess of pop, and queen of semiconductor physics is not the harmless little lamb we all took her for.
  He was the sacrificial lamb without blemish, making an atonement to end all sacrifices.
3. 1.3 Used to describe or address someone regarded with affection or pity, especially a young child.
  小家伙，小宝贝（尤指对孩子的怜爱或同情的描述或称呼）
  the poor lamb is very upset
  可怜的小家伙十分不快。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘It turns out that, in the end, the British state still made a profit out of me,’ the poor lamb concluded.
  They seem to be okay now, though, the poor lambs.
  Gary Neville's bleeding from the head, the poor lamb.
  How else would the poor lambs get a decent break before being slaughtered in the main event of the winter?
  However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise.
  Oh, the inhumanity of it all, the snobbery, the poor lamb.
  As for the poor lambs, well they're still being killed.
  We are poor little lambs who have lost our way.
4. 1.4the Lamb
  short for Lamb of God

verblamlæm

[no object]

1(of a ewe) give birth to lambs.
（母羊）产羔
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing.
- Ewes due to lamb, cows due to calve, ran terrified through fences.
- They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright.
- The RSPCA was the first agency to begin making a real difference to animal welfare problems when it became clear that thousands of ewes were lambing in appalling conditions, because of movement restrictions.
- Ewes that avoided the winter range, Wehausen found, lambed a month later than those that did not, and the snows and freezing temperatures took a heavy toll on lambs forced to overwinter on the mountaintops.
- With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply.
- Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted.
- The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes.
- The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it.
- I'd have to sell the sheep which would be very stressful for them because they are lambing.
- On Friday night last a sheep lambed and as he watched the little lambs struggle to find their footing under the careful supervision of their mother he thought how oblivious they were to the turbulent world they had just entered.
- If the first few ewes lamb with poor milk supply - seek help and take action.
- I should during the winter keep about 70 half bred ewes and after they have lambed in spring sell about 20, keeping the other 50 and feed the lambs to sell, getting the ewes fat after having sold the lambs, to sell also.
- The lambs were nice and fat; Wehausen predicted that the female would be lambing by the next year.
1. 1.1with object Tend (ewes) at lambing time.
  照看（产羔母羊）
  Example sentencesExamples
  How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs?
  He also asked the pupils how many of them came from farms, and whether they were lambing at home.
  ‘All the ewes are lambed inside and stay inside for about 48 hours to mother them up so that they don't get separated when they go out, hopefully into the sunshine on Bredon Hill,’ Mr Freestone said.
  Ms Wright is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing.
  Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year.
  Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week.
  I, for my part, have to confess to you I have a little sheep farm and I was lambing before I came here this morning.
  Adrian Bateson is lambing on the family farm and is unavailable.

Phrases

like a lamb to (the) slaughter

As a helpless victim.
怯弱无助地
Example sentencesExamples
- I watched him move around the pre-op room, a handsome man in his scrubs, tall and strong, unlike poor me, lying there like a lamb to the slaughter.
- Jesus has chosen passivity - being ‘led like a lamb to the slaughter.’
- She must have known what was up when she saw the chaise but she gets in like a lamb to the slaughter.
- Thus, Labour chiefs believe Osborne will be like a lamb to the slaughter for Brown.
- I hadn't even realized we were so close to the dance floor until Jamie grabbed my hand and led me like a lamb to the slaughter, onto that floor and began to sway to the beat of the music with me in his arms.
- I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought I did and I was like a lamb to the slaughter because of it.
- Mike Pulsford, defending, said Penrose had arrived at court like a lamb to the slaughter knowing what sentence the youth court had already given to his accomplice.
- But now he too is heading like a lamb to the slaughter: ‘in some far-off dawn a crumbling cross’ shall mark his gift.
- I don't know what I was thinking; I went into this gig like a lamb to the slaughter.
- For the first time the audience knows what he does not know and cannot guess, that he is going like a lamb to the slaughter.
Synonyms
submissive, yielding, unresisting, obedient, compliant, tame, biddable, tractable, acquiescent, deferential, weak, timid, frightened, spineless, spiritless, unprotesting, like a lamb to the slaughter

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm.

词汇	lamb
释义	Definition of lamb in English: lamb noun lamlæm 1A young sheep. 小绵羊，羔羊 Example sentencesExamples We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs. Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep. I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood. They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs. However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs. Have members ever seen a lamb or sheep die from flyblow? More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable. A baby lamb born weighing less than a bag of sugar has defied all the odds. The buoyant trade also led to more ewe lambs being slaughtered rather than being retained for breeding. The newborn lambs are brought into the house when it's cold and fed by hand. Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet. In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia. A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears. The result is a nicely marked speckled faced ewe lamb with good confirmation and vigor. Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well. - People have made complaints on the program's website that heavily pregnant ewes and newborn lambs were mustered. They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets. For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks. A total of 9,000 sheep and lambs were slaughtered. Certainly, opening the American border to sheep and lambs should not be near as difficult as opening it to cattle, since, I repeat, sheep do not get BSE. 1.1mass noun The flesh of a lamb as food. 羔羊肉 we had roast lamb for supper as modifier lamb chops Example sentencesExamples Season the lamb with salt and pepper and add to the pan. Forty per cent of Irish spring lamb, she says, is sold on the home market. You need best end of neck lamb chops but don't over-trim them; leave a little fat on for flavour. I was preparing lamb chops, according to a recipe from Jamie's Dinners. I personally like the lamb cutlets, although they can be a little tough. This light, slightly racy red wine would match well with grilled meats, salmon, lamb or pork. I recommend a light, acidic Beaujolais Villages as your wine partner to a lamb curry. Mr. Deacon said spring lamb prices will be set by the strong domestic market demand and scarce supplies. Yes, pork fat is higher in unsaturated fatty acids than beef, veal, or lamb fat. Grilled steak, pork roast, sautéed lamb chops, or roast chicken would make a perfect pairing. William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank. Sunday roasts - lamb, beef and pork - were available, as was half a roast chicken. They're typically stuffed with a rice and meat mixture, but with lamb chops as the centerpiece, do I really want to do meat in the stuffing? The roast lamb was a scrumptious mound of tender, smokey meat. Sundays would be the day that I properly cook something traditional like roast lamb. I dip a sprig of rosemary into the oil and place it over each lamb chop. Bertie had to admit the lamb stew was the best he ever tasted. Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne. Use enough stock to just barely cover the lamb shanks. We'll cook roast lamb and potatoes and indulgent desserts and scoff the whole thing ourselves. 1.2 Used figuratively as a symbol of meekness or innocence. he accepted her decision like a lamb 让她惊奇的是，他像羔羊般顺从地接受了她的决定。 Example sentencesExamples For Christians there is the added symbolic significance that Jesus is regarded as the lamb of God. A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle. He was the sacrificial lamb without blemish, making an atonement to end all sacrifices. Yes, Kelley herself is not exactly an innocent lamb being led to media slaughter. Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be. Britney Spears, the wholesome princess of pop, and queen of semiconductor physics is not the harmless little lamb we all took her for. McDougal may not have been the most innocent of lambs, but it is clear that the Start Gestapo would not have pursued her had it not been for her friendship with the Clintons. It is worth recalling that however successful they eventually became, Ferranti Thistle were originally regarded as sacrificial lambs likely to surrender easy points to the existing clubs. Me, I'd rather sit here eating a Tootsie Roll Pop, innocent as a newborn lamb, and not worry about stuff like the police. McNulty: We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. I looked at the religious angle, the Christian / Pagan conflict, and the wolf as heretic symbol, as opposed to the Christian lamb. Even a man of Karsh's considerable charm couldn't have turned Churchill from lion to lamb in an instant. It's called the Wiffenpoof Song, and one line goes, ‘We're poor little lambs who have lost our way.’ Jesus is the innocent lamb that is put to death to maintain peace. There are babes in Christ's family as well as old men; there are weak members of the mystical body as well as strong ones; there are tender lambs as well as sheep. Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace. The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red. 1.3 Used to describe or address someone regarded with affection or pity, especially a young child. 小家伙，小宝贝（尤指对孩子的怜爱或同情的描述或称呼） the poor lamb is very upset 可怜的小家伙十分不快。 Example sentencesExamples They seem to be okay now, though, the poor lambs. Oh, the inhumanity of it all, the snobbery, the poor lamb. As for the poor lambs, well they're still being killed. However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise. We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. Gary Neville's bleeding from the head, the poor lamb. How else would the poor lambs get a decent break before being slaughtered in the main event of the winter? ‘It turns out that, in the end, the British state still made a profit out of me,’ the poor lamb concluded. verb lamlæm 1no object (of a ewe) give birth to lambs. （母羊）产羔 Shetland sheep lamb very easily Example sentencesExamples If the first few ewes lamb with poor milk supply - seek help and take action. With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. Ewes that avoided the winter range, Wehausen found, lambed a month later than those that did not, and the snows and freezing temperatures took a heavy toll on lambs forced to overwinter on the mountaintops. The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes. Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted. On Friday night last a sheep lambed and as he watched the little lambs struggle to find their footing under the careful supervision of their mother he thought how oblivious they were to the turbulent world they had just entered. Ewes due to lamb, cows due to calve, ran terrified through fences. The RSPCA was the first agency to begin making a real difference to animal welfare problems when it became clear that thousands of ewes were lambing in appalling conditions, because of movement restrictions. The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it. I should during the winter keep about 70 half bred ewes and after they have lambed in spring sell about 20, keeping the other 50 and feed the lambs to sell, getting the ewes fat after having sold the lambs, to sell also. The lambs were nice and fat; Wehausen predicted that the female would be lambing by the next year. Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing. They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright. I'd have to sell the sheep which would be very stressful for them because they are lambing. 1.1with object Tend (ewes) at lambing time. 照看（产羔母羊） I lambed a flock of 30 ewes for a neighbour Example sentencesExamples ‘All the ewes are lambed inside and stay inside for about 48 hours to mother them up so that they don't get separated when they go out, hopefully into the sunshine on Bredon Hill,’ Mr Freestone said. Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year. Ms Wright is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing. Adrian Bateson is lambing on the family farm and is unavailable. Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week. How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs? He also asked the pupils how many of them came from farms, and whether they were lambing at home. I, for my part, have to confess to you I have a little sheep farm and I was lambing before I came here this morning. 2lamb someone downAustralian NZ dated, informal with object Encourage someone to squander their money, especially on alcohol. 〈非正式〉怂恿（某人）大笔花钱（尤指花钱纵酒） Pitt had been lambed down at the Pig and Whistle 皮特在皮克和威斯尔酒吧被诱大笔消费。 Phrases in lamb (of a ewe) pregnant. （母羊）怀胎 ewes in lamb are marked with blue paint Example sentencesExamples Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend. Hikers and dogs can also cause stress to ewes, which are heavy in lamb at this time of the year. Alas, poachers have again struck in Kwelera and just a few mornings ago a bush buck ewe, in lamb, was found just at the back door of a neighbour. I am an ex-farmer, and was very surprised to see ewes heavy in lamb being mustered. The rest of the flock are heavily in lamb but I won't be expecting any offspring as they are badly injured. Therefore all ewes could be safely in lamb by day 47 after the ram joins the flock. Now a fully-grown ram, registered as D' Artagnan, with the pet name Harry, he will be heading south with his ‘girlfriend’ Amanda Jane, who is in lamb, to take up residence on the Royal farm. The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes. In the biggest raid, 348 sheep were taken from a farm at Aislaby, near Whitby early on Wednesday morning; 251 of them were in lamb. If they are not in lamb by that stage there is something wrong. the Lamb of God (also the Lamb) A title of Jesus Christ (see John 1:29). Example sentencesExamples Did he die as the Lamb of God - an atoning sacrifice to bear away our sins? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, never sinned. We want our friends and neighbours to see him as he really is - not as a Hollywood hero but as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. To borrow a phrase that St. Augustine loved to use, God's deepest desire at Mass is that we become the very thing that we receive, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. In the Feast of the Passover we see Christ as the Lamb of God, shedding his precious blood to redeem his people. Roman Catholics point to the same event as the sacramental center of Christian life, with the words from the Gospel of John, ‘the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.’ Jesus Christ is ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’. But was Judas necessary to the sacrifice of the Lamb of God? Why did God forsake The Lamb of God at the very moment of His Sacrifice? With this knowledge in our grasp we understand that what has gone wrong in our world is sin, and furthermore the only way to correct his problem is to have that sin remitted by the blood of the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. like a lamb to the slaughter As a helpless victim. 怯弱无助地 Example sentencesExamples I don't know what I was thinking; I went into this gig like a lamb to the slaughter. I watched him move around the pre-op room, a handsome man in his scrubs, tall and strong, unlike poor me, lying there like a lamb to the slaughter. She must have known what was up when she saw the chaise but she gets in like a lamb to the slaughter. For the first time the audience knows what he does not know and cannot guess, that he is going like a lamb to the slaughter. But now he too is heading like a lamb to the slaughter: ‘in some far-off dawn a crumbling cross’ shall mark his gift. Jesus has chosen passivity - being ‘led like a lamb to the slaughter.’ I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought I did and I was like a lamb to the slaughter because of it. I hadn't even realized we were so close to the dance floor until Jamie grabbed my hand and led me like a lamb to the slaughter, onto that floor and began to sway to the beat of the music with me in his arms. Thus, Labour chiefs believe Osborne will be like a lamb to the slaughter for Brown. Mike Pulsford, defending, said Penrose had arrived at court like a lamb to the slaughter knowing what sentence the youth court had already given to his accomplice. Synonyms submissive, yielding, unresisting, obedient, compliant, tame, biddable, tractable, acquiescent, deferential, weak, timid, frightened, spineless, spiritless, unprotesting, like a lamb to the slaughter Derivatives lamber noun During the lunch hour, I was waiting for the lambers to get back, and I waited all alone in a big field of about 100 pregnant ewes, the last of the herd to come through. Example sentencesExamples A resumption of lamb sales in the marts would bring much needed competition to the sheep market and also allow hill sheep producers and late lambers to sell. Against all predictions, trade was better, especially in the Suffolk Cross breeding section, where purchasers were looking for a few early lambers. One of the lambers at this place was very disagreeable at first. lamblike adjective Let's first review all the texts in the Bible pertaining to the mark of the beast and the worship of its image, and see how texts referring to the lamblike beast and the false prophet turn up as well. Example sentencesExamples If the general was a tiger, his staff officers were selected from the lambs; if he was lamblike, then they were chosen for their tigerishness. Civil and religious liberty, so characteristic of America, are most appropriately represented by the two lamblike horns of this creature. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness. The camels ‘exhibited the most lamblike docility,’ the local newspaper reported. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm. Rhymes am, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam noun.1 phr. Definition of lamb in US English: lamb nounlamlæm 1A young sheep. 小绵羊，羔羊 Example sentencesExamples For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks. - People have made complaints on the program's website that heavily pregnant ewes and newborn lambs were mustered. Certainly, opening the American border to sheep and lambs should not be near as difficult as opening it to cattle, since, I repeat, sheep do not get BSE. We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs. Have members ever seen a lamb or sheep die from flyblow? The buoyant trade also led to more ewe lambs being slaughtered rather than being retained for breeding. A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears. However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs. The result is a nicely marked speckled faced ewe lamb with good confirmation and vigor. A baby lamb born weighing less than a bag of sugar has defied all the odds. I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood. In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia. They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs. More than 90% of the sheep were marked as lambs, and all rams were individually identifiable. The newborn lambs are brought into the house when it's cold and fed by hand. A total of 9,000 sheep and lambs were slaughtered. Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet. They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets. Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep. Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well. 1.1 The flesh of young sheep as food. 羔羊肉 Example sentencesExamples Season the lamb with salt and pepper and add to the pan. Forty per cent of Irish spring lamb, she says, is sold on the home market. Mr. Deacon said spring lamb prices will be set by the strong domestic market demand and scarce supplies. Bertie had to admit the lamb stew was the best he ever tasted. We'll cook roast lamb and potatoes and indulgent desserts and scoff the whole thing ourselves. You need best end of neck lamb chops but don't over-trim them; leave a little fat on for flavour. I recommend a light, acidic Beaujolais Villages as your wine partner to a lamb curry. I was preparing lamb chops, according to a recipe from Jamie's Dinners. Use enough stock to just barely cover the lamb shanks. I personally like the lamb cutlets, although they can be a little tough. Sundays would be the day that I properly cook something traditional like roast lamb. William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank. They're typically stuffed with a rice and meat mixture, but with lamb chops as the centerpiece, do I really want to do meat in the stuffing? Main courses included roast beef, lamb and pork from the carvery, steak and kidney pie, poached chicken with mushroom and asparagus sauce and vegetable lasagne. Sunday roasts - lamb, beef and pork - were available, as was half a roast chicken. Grilled steak, pork roast, sautéed lamb chops, or roast chicken would make a perfect pairing. The roast lamb was a scrumptious mound of tender, smokey meat. I dip a sprig of rosemary into the oil and place it over each lamb chop. Yes, pork fat is higher in unsaturated fatty acids than beef, veal, or lamb fat. This light, slightly racy red wine would match well with grilled meats, salmon, lamb or pork. 1.2 Used figuratively as a symbol of meekness, gentleness, or innocence. 〈喻〉温顺，柔弱 to her amazement, he accepted her decision like a lamb 让她惊奇的是，他像羔羊般顺从地接受了她的决定。 Example sentencesExamples Jesus is the innocent lamb that is put to death to maintain peace. Me, I'd rather sit here eating a Tootsie Roll Pop, innocent as a newborn lamb, and not worry about stuff like the police. McNulty: We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. The singer is admitting to the listener that he is feigning the innocence of a lamb in order to get close to Little Red. It is worth recalling that however successful they eventually became, Ferranti Thistle were originally regarded as sacrificial lambs likely to surrender easy points to the existing clubs. McDougal may not have been the most innocent of lambs, but it is clear that the Start Gestapo would not have pursued her had it not been for her friendship with the Clintons. Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be. Yes, Kelley herself is not exactly an innocent lamb being led to media slaughter. There are babes in Christ's family as well as old men; there are weak members of the mystical body as well as strong ones; there are tender lambs as well as sheep. Even a man of Karsh's considerable charm couldn't have turned Churchill from lion to lamb in an instant. I looked at the religious angle, the Christian / Pagan conflict, and the wolf as heretic symbol, as opposed to the Christian lamb. It's called the Wiffenpoof Song, and one line goes, ‘We're poor little lambs who have lost our way.’ For Christians there is the added symbolic significance that Jesus is regarded as the lamb of God. A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle. Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace. Britney Spears, the wholesome princess of pop, and queen of semiconductor physics is not the harmless little lamb we all took her for. He was the sacrificial lamb without blemish, making an atonement to end all sacrifices. 1.3 Used to describe or address someone regarded with affection or pity, especially a young child. 小家伙，小宝贝（尤指对孩子的怜爱或同情的描述或称呼） the poor lamb is very upset 可怜的小家伙十分不快。 Example sentencesExamples ‘It turns out that, in the end, the British state still made a profit out of me,’ the poor lamb concluded. They seem to be okay now, though, the poor lambs. Gary Neville's bleeding from the head, the poor lamb. How else would the poor lambs get a decent break before being slaughtered in the main event of the winter? However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise. Oh, the inhumanity of it all, the snobbery, the poor lamb. As for the poor lambs, well they're still being killed. We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. 1.4the Lamb short for Lamb of God verblamlæm [no object] 1(of a ewe) give birth to lambs. （母羊）产羔 Example sentencesExamples Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing. Ewes due to lamb, cows due to calve, ran terrified through fences. They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright. The RSPCA was the first agency to begin making a real difference to animal welfare problems when it became clear that thousands of ewes were lambing in appalling conditions, because of movement restrictions. Ewes that avoided the winter range, Wehausen found, lambed a month later than those that did not, and the snows and freezing temperatures took a heavy toll on lambs forced to overwinter on the mountaintops. With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted. The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes. The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it. I'd have to sell the sheep which would be very stressful for them because they are lambing. On Friday night last a sheep lambed and as he watched the little lambs struggle to find their footing under the careful supervision of their mother he thought how oblivious they were to the turbulent world they had just entered. If the first few ewes lamb with poor milk supply - seek help and take action. I should during the winter keep about 70 half bred ewes and after they have lambed in spring sell about 20, keeping the other 50 and feed the lambs to sell, getting the ewes fat after having sold the lambs, to sell also. The lambs were nice and fat; Wehausen predicted that the female would be lambing by the next year. 1.1with object Tend (ewes) at lambing time. 照看（产羔母羊） Example sentencesExamples How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs? He also asked the pupils how many of them came from farms, and whether they were lambing at home. ‘All the ewes are lambed inside and stay inside for about 48 hours to mother them up so that they don't get separated when they go out, hopefully into the sunshine on Bredon Hill,’ Mr Freestone said. Ms Wright is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing. Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year. Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week. I, for my part, have to confess to you I have a little sheep farm and I was lambing before I came here this morning. Adrian Bateson is lambing on the family farm and is unavailable. Phrases like a lamb to (the) slaughter As a helpless victim. 怯弱无助地 Example sentencesExamples I watched him move around the pre-op room, a handsome man in his scrubs, tall and strong, unlike poor me, lying there like a lamb to the slaughter. Jesus has chosen passivity - being ‘led like a lamb to the slaughter.’ She must have known what was up when she saw the chaise but she gets in like a lamb to the slaughter. Thus, Labour chiefs believe Osborne will be like a lamb to the slaughter for Brown. I hadn't even realized we were so close to the dance floor until Jamie grabbed my hand and led me like a lamb to the slaughter, onto that floor and began to sway to the beat of the music with me in his arms. I didn't know what I was doing, but I thought I did and I was like a lamb to the slaughter because of it. Mike Pulsford, defending, said Penrose had arrived at court like a lamb to the slaughter knowing what sentence the youth court had already given to his accomplice. But now he too is heading like a lamb to the slaughter: ‘in some far-off dawn a crumbling cross’ shall mark his gift. I don't know what I was thinking; I went into this gig like a lamb to the slaughter. For the first time the audience knows what he does not know and cannot guess, that he is going like a lamb to the slaughter. Synonyms submissive, yielding, unresisting, obedient, compliant, tame, biddable, tractable, acquiescent, deferential, weak, timid, frightened, spineless, spiritless, unprotesting, like a lamb to the slaughter Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm. noun.1 phr.
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