Stag

(noun.) adult male deer.

(verb.) attend a dance or a party without a female companion.

汉克整理

• A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• A hornless stag or spurless cock would have a poor chance of leaving numerous offspring. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Even the pale stag seemed to have reminding glances and to mean mutely, Yes, we know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• What of this line, 'O heavy with wine, who hast the eyes of a dog and the heart of a stag,' and of the words which follow? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Man had begun to make spears for use in a pinch, but would you like to tackle a husky bear or a well-horned stag with only a spear for a weapon? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Do men catch a wise stag without hounds? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Carved stags' heads, with real antlers, looked down grotesquely from the walls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Every one knows how the horns of stags become more and more branched, and the plumes of some birds become more finely developed, as they grow older. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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