• n. 牛；公牛

來自古英語oxa,公牛。其復數為oxen,比較children.

ox

ox: [OE] Ox is an ancient word, traceable back to a prehistoric Indo-European *uksín-. This also produced Welsh ych ‘bull’, Irish oss ‘stag’, and Sanskrit ukshán ‘bull’, and it has been speculated that there may be some connection with Sanskrit uks- ‘emit semen’ and Greek hugrós ‘moist’, as if *uksín- denoted etymologically ‘male animal’.

If this was so, the ‘seed-bearing’ function had clearly been lost sight of by the time it had evolved to Germanic *okhson, which was reserved for a ‘castrated bull’. Ox’s modern Germanic relatives are German ochse (taken over by English in the compound aurochs ‘extinct wild ox’ [18], which etymologically means ‘original or primeval ox’), Dutch os, Swedish oxe, and Danish okse.
=> aurochs

ox (n.)

Old English oxa "ox" (plural oxan), from Proto-Germanic *ukhson (cognates: Old Norse oxi, Old Frisian oxa, Middle Dutch osse, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, German Ochse, Gothic auhsa), from PIE *uks-en- "male animal," (cognates: Welsh ych "ox," Middle Irish oss "stag," Sanskrit uksa, Avestan uxshan- "ox, bull"), said to be from root *uks- "to sprinkle," related to *ugw- "wet, moist." The animal word, then, is literally "besprinkler."

1. Seize a horse by the mane, and lead an ox by the nose.

馬兒抓鬃牛牽鼻.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The ox is never woe , till he to the harrow go.

牛不耙地不知苦.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. I'm willing to be an ox serving the country all my life.

我甘當孺子牛,終生為國家服務.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. We've made a fire fit to roast an ox.

火生得很旺,足以烤一頭牛了.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. He drove the ox hard.

他使勁地趕牛.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》