cote
cote — 名詞
1. a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or oth
禽舍；棚舍
圈養鴿子或羊隻的小棚
a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or other tame animals safe overnight.
Felipe whitewashed the old pigeon cote behind the barn before spring arrived.
Felipe 在春天到來前，把穀倉後面那座舊鴿舍重新粉刷過。
compound: pigeon cote
Every evening, Meera shooed the doves back into the wooden cote near the orchard.
Meera 每天傍晚把鴿子趕回果園旁的木棚裡。
into the cote (returning home)
A fox slipped through a gap in the sheep cote and frightened the new lambs.
一隻狐狸從羊棚的縫隙鑽進去，把新生的小羊嚇了一跳。
The estate map from 1820 marked a small dovecote at the edge of the kitchen garden.
1820 年的莊園地圖在菜園邊角標出了一座小鴿舍。
文法句型
a [animal] cote
in / inside the cote
用法筆記
Today the bare word 'cote' is rare on its own; you mostly meet it as part of compounds like 'dovecote', 'pigeon cote', or 'sheep cote'. Mostly found in rural, historical, or literary writing rather than in everyday conversation.
常見錯誤
cote — 動詞
1. in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chas
超越；趕過
舊式狩獵中獵犬追過另一隻
in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chase.
Owen watched in delight as his greyhound coted the rival pack on the open moor.
Owen 看著他的灰狗在曠野上把對手的獵犬群一隻隻趕過，心裡非常滿意。
cote + animal (in chase)
The fastest hound of the day coted three others before reaching the wounded deer.
當天最快的那隻獵犬一連超越了三隻同伴，才接近那頭受傷的鹿。
cote + multiple rivals
In his old hunting diary, Sari read how the spaniel coted the leading dog at the bend.
Sari 從舊獵記日誌裡讀到，那隻獵犬在轉彎處超越了領頭的犬。
Shakespeare uses the word when describing how one greyhound cotes another in full chase.
莎士比亞曾用這個字來描寫一隻灰狗在追逐中超越另一隻。
- trail
lag behind rather than pass
文法句型
cote + noun
用法筆記
Almost never met in modern English; survives mainly in old hunting manuals, dictionaries of obsolete words, and one well-known Shakespeare reference. Subject is a hunting dog; object is another dog or the prey animal it overtakes.