They would sell the meat off as pet food. 他们将把肉当作宠物食品卖掉。
Make sure your pet won't pine while you're away. 要确保不在家时宠物不会想你。
For a child the death of a pet can be traumatic. 对孩子来说,一只宠物的死亡可能会造成心理创伤。
I sell my surplus birds to a local pet shop. 我把多余的鸟卖给当地的宠物商店。
This lady was genuinely surprised at what happened to her pet. 这位女士对发生在自己宠物身上的事感到非常惊讶。
This mad writer kept a lobster as a pet. 这个疯狂的作家把龙虾当宠物养。
It's all right, pet, let me do it. 没事儿,宝贝儿,让我来吧。
The death of his pet cat broke him up. 他那只心爱的猫死了,他为此而悲痛.
There's no need to get in a pet about it. 没必要为这件小事发脾气.
When her pet dog died, my daughter cried her eyes out. 我的女儿因她的爱犬死了而痛哭流涕.
The small dog was a great pet with the boys. 这条小狗是孩子们的宠物.
That boy is the teacher's pet. 那男生是老师的得意门生.
Tom is the pet name of Thomas. 汤姆是托马斯的爱称.
Benny is a pet name for the rabbit. 本尼是对这只兔子的爱称.
I want a cat as a pet. 我想要只宠物猫.
Don't be afraid to pet the dog. 不要怕抚摸这条狗.
He is the teacher's pet. 他是教师宠爱的学生.
What a perfect pet of a dress! 多可爱的一件衣服!
She is a perfect pet. 她是最受宠爱的人.
He keeps a dog as a pet. 他养一只狗供玩赏.
1)Teddy Roosevelt's Badger
泰迪·罗斯福的獾
Teddy Roosevelt and his family nursed the little badger with a bottle and allowed him to run wild in the house. Roosevelt said that the animal’s "temper was short but [his] nature was fundamentally friendly.”
The Roosevelts also owned a hyena and a black bear, which was named after the 18th-century Calvinist Jonathan Edwards.
罗斯福还养了一只鬣狗和一只黑熊。他以十八世纪的加尔文教徒乔纳森·爱德华兹来命名这只黑熊。
3) Calvin Coolidge's Hippo
卡尔文·库利奇的河马
President Calvin Coolidge, who assumed office in 1923. Aside from the more conventional cats, dogs, and birds, Coolidge housed a bobcat, a donkey named Ebenezer, two raccoons, lion cubs, a wallaby, and, last but not least, a hippo named Billy.
I can get on board with pet raccoons. Rebecca the raccoon was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the family couldn't bring itself to harm the playful thing. The president walked around with Rebecca wrapped around his shoulders when she wasn't in the arms of First Lady Grace Coolidge.
John Quincy Adams' mother and former First Lady Abigail Adams named her dog Satan.
约翰·昆西·亚当斯的母亲和前第一夫人阿比盖尔·亚当斯给自己的狗取名“撒旦”。
8) William Howard Taft's Cow
威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱的奶牛
This one actually makes sense, especially if you're a president who likes dairy. The cow was the last cow to graze the White House's green pastures.
这个还是讲得通的,特别是一位喜爱乳制品的总统。而这只奶牛也是最后一只有幸吃到白宫绿牧草的牛了。
9) Benjamin Harrison's Wily Goat
本杰明·哈里森的狡猾山羊
Harrison bought a goat named Old Whiskers for his grandchildren. One day, after towing around Harrison's grandchildren in a makeshift carriage, he escaped through the gates.
词组短语 pet food 宠物食品 pet dog 宠物狗;宠物犬 pet shop 宠物商店,玩赏动物商店 pet peeve 不能忍受的事;经常抱怨的问题 teacher's pet 教师的宠儿 pet name 爱称,昵称 pet phrase 口头禅 in a pet 一气之下
同近义词 n. 宠物;生气;受宠爱的人 vitality , animation vt. 宠爱 dote on , cosset vi. 生气;爱抚 take offense , take offence adj. 宠爱的 favorite , fond
双语例句 She's the teacher's pet. 她是老师的宝贝疙瘩。 What's wrong, pet? 怎么啦,宝贝儿? We had to write a composition on the subject "My Pet." 我们得就“我的宠物”这个主题写一篇作文。 Everybody and his pet dog is trying to get a seat on a plane out of Logan airport. 每个人和他们的宠物狗,都想获得罗根机场的飞机上的座位。