livestock

livestock — 名詞

1. Cows, sheep, chickens, and other animals that people raise on a farm to sell or

1.名詞B1
釋義

牲畜

農場飼養的動物

Cows, sheep, chickens, and other animals that people raise on a farm to sell or use for things like meat, milk, eggs, or wool.

例句

Ravi spent every morning feeding the livestock before heading to school.

Ravi 每天早上都要先餵完牲畜才去上學。

collocation: feed the livestock

The Han family earns most of their income from selling livestock at the weekly market.

Han 家最主要的收入來源是在每週的市場販賣牲畜。

collocation: sell livestock

同義詞
  • cattle

    refers specifically to cows and bulls, not to chickens, sheep, or pigs

  • farm animals

    a more everyday, informal term; livestock has a commercial or agricultural tone

  • stock

    shorter term used in farming and business contexts, but can be confused with financial stock

  • herds

    focuses on groups of grazing animals, not poultry or pigs

文法句型

livestock + verb (singular/plural depending on collective interpretation)

用法筆記

Always used as an uncountable noun. Do not add -s for the plural. Refers to farm animals as a collective group; an individual animal is called a cow, sheep, chicken, etc., not 'a livestock'. Can take either a singular or a plural verb depending on whether the group is thought of as a single unit ('The livestock is kept in the barn') or as individuals ('The livestock are grazing in different fields').

常見錯誤

❌The farmer has five livestocks.
✅The farmer has fifty head of livestock.
💡Livestock is uncountable; use 'head of' to count individual animals.
❌I bought a livestock from the market.
✅I bought a goat from the market.
💡Livestock refers to the whole group, not a single animal.