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 corral [kə'ræl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 畜栏

vt. 把...关进畜栏


  1. After we corral the horses we'll have lunch.
    把马关进围栏后,我们就吃中饭。
  2. The report of the gun stampeded the cattle and sent them milling about in the corral.
    这一声枪响惊得牛群在畜栏内乱跑乱转。
  3. Led by Mr Corral, the47 filed a motion of unconstitutionality with the Supreme Court.
    接着,这47位参议员在科洛尔先生的领导之下向国家最高法院集体提出,此法案的通过是完全不符合国家宪法的。


corral
corralled, corralling
[ noun ]
  1. a pen for cattle

  2. <noun.artifact>
[ verb ]
  1. enclose in a corral

  2. <verb.contact>
    corral the horses
  3. arrange wagons so that they form a corral

  4. <verb.contact>
  5. collect or gather

  6. <verb.contact>
    corralling votes for an election


Corral \Cor*ral"\ (k?r-r?l"; Sp. k?r-r?l"), n. [Sp., a yard, a
yard for cattle, fr. corro a circle or ring, fr. L. currere
to run. Cf. {Kraal}.]
A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by
emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of
security for horses, cattle, etc.


Corral \Cor*ral"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corraled} (-r?ld" or
-r?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corralling}.]
To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed
space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses
and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the
plains, but in the Southwestern United States now
colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning
of anything. --Bartlett.

  1. The wind did damage some of the containment booms used to corral the oil, Iarossi said.
  2. Passage of the bill was delayed until the Senate's Democratic majority could corral enough votes to waive the prohibition against appropriating funds that exceed the spending limit in the congressional budget resolution.
  3. You surprise me with your 'Shoot-out in the DC corral' (February 12/13) editorial. What in effect you propose is a no-win situation.
  4. Thousands of firefighters shoveled and sprayed to corral nearly 93,000 acres of burning Idaho timber Saturday, and the weather cooperated with occasional rain showers and lower temperatures.
  5. An attempt to corral the birds with cannon nets, which are pulled by small rockets over a baited area, failed because the pheasants disdained the bait.
  6. The rescuers, who received a telephone pep talk Tuesday from President Reagan, hope the new holes will influence the endangered mammals to move in the direction they must travel if they are ever to escape their icy corral.
  7. Each corral holds about 2,700 horses, Locke said.
  8. If Bush can't corral his Republicans and force them to accept a compromise - and he surely didn't (earlier this month) - then the majority party must assume the leadership and take the first steps toward balancing the budge.
  9. But two stand out: Rethink the impact of the state's 5% occupancy tax on hotel rooms costing $100 or more and corral the perception of crime on every corner.
  10. Volunteers held portable fencing to help corral the animal.
  11. The tax agency says it means to corral the culprits, and to that end is aggressively pursuing 40 criminal investigations in locales around the country, which it won't name.
  12. A month earlier, after a drop in the number of parking tickets issued by police was partly blamed for a city budget crisis, Houston began to use the boot to corral cars whose owners had three or more unpaid tickets.
  13. For example, it took more than six months for Citicorp and other big banks to corral smaller banks into a $7.7 billion bank loan for Mexico earlier this year.
  14. If Wall Street were a Western movie, people could call the sheriff to corral rustlers who ride off with corporate gold instead of putting it into research and updated plants needed to compete.
  15. Detainees call it "El Corralon," the big corral, because of the 12-foot-high double fencing topped with barbed wire.
  16. Poindexter, the report concluded, "failed grievously" to corral the runaway Contra aid operation managed by a zealous subordinate, fired NSC aide Lt.
  17. "I would say about 85 percent make real good guards," she said as she stood in a corral with donkeys Mary Ann, Rachel, Hickory Jackson and Dandy.
  18. Four thousand yards of dirt are laid over the basketball floor of Montana State University's Brick Breeden Field House, and a huge corral is set up outside the field house doors.
  19. But the Street is certainly eager to corral its arbitration caseload, which has doubled since 1986 to an estimated 5,500 cases filed last year.
  20. Earlier this year, Bank of Boston proved one of the more difficult regionals to corral into a $6 billion bank loan for Mexico, according to New York bankers.
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