A mule is a hybrid of a donkey and a horse. 骡子是公驴和母马交配而生的杂种。
donkey
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the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
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domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
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Donkey \Don"key\ (d[o^][ng]"k[y^]), n.; pl. {Donkeys} (d[o^][ng]"k[i^]z). [Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of the animal + a dim. termination.] 1. An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
{Donkey engine}, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes.
{Donkey pump}, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary.
{Donkey's eye} (Bot.), the large round seed of the {Mucuna pruriens}, a tropical leguminous plant.
It was good to be in a part of the world where Marco Polo's recommendation still meant something, and I set off for Khotan without delay. In the pre-dawn the bus station in Kashgar was a scrum of donkey carts, beggars and passengers dwarfed by baggage.
"References to ass have been adjusted to the inoffensive and unambiguous donkey," he said.
Recently, a bill was introduced in the Maine state Legislature to ban donkey basketball.
As a test of local acumen, the Jew took out one piaster, worth about a half-cent, and asked a boy whether he might feed himself and his donkey and still have something left over for entertainment.
And there's the donkey call. "It's on a string that you wear around your neck and emulates the sounds of a donkey," Weiner said.
And there's the donkey call. "It's on a string that you wear around your neck and emulates the sounds of a donkey," Weiner said.
In 1984, federal agriculture inspectors almost put Sonnette, a member of an endangered species, to death because the donkey failed an equine blood test for communicable diseases.
(The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.) In 1870, the Democratic Party was represented as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
But on the many goat trails and donkey tracks that crisscross the West Bank's stony hillsides, a steady stream of illicit traffic made its way around the barriers.
Even after 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and millions fled by truck, cart, donkey and on foot, Pakistan accepted the arrivals with remarkably few complaints.
What do they want with somebody on a donkey cart?"
The cave-dwellers fetch water from nearby wells and grind their grain using old-style millstones turned by donkey or by hand.
The video has a cast of 70 people, 30 sheep, 4 camels and a donkey.
Then one day he called the farm administrator a "donkey" and worse.
Villagers trying to rescue a donkey from a dam dived for cover when they saw what had trapped its hind leg: a wooden box containing a surface-to-air missile.
"It's such a natural thing for a donkey," said Ms. Falley, who also sells the guard animals. "It's not something that requires training.
The donkey went to the animal center.
Titian's composition conveys the quality of worshipful repose normal in a Nativity, and yet he also included the energetic figure of a shepherd tugging at his donkey.
NBC's election coverage featured cartoons of a blue elephant and a pink donkey, but it was ABC's and CBS' early projections that most repulsed West Coast voters.
Our people are going to hit the 'donkey' big on Election Day."
"You can't say, `King Fahd's a donkey and we want to eat the Americans,' then turn around and ask for aid," says one Amman lawyer.
The party itself is selling rights to use the convention logo on various souvenirs _ including a official, licensed, party-approved donkey call.
Usually the main course consisted of sauteed sweet peppers, potatoes fried in olive oil and a nondescript meat of unknown origin; donkey was being sold in the few butcher shops.
I spent a happy half-hour chasing damsels and rock beauties in and out of the corals and stalking sergeant majors and grunts among the elkhorn. At times, Anguilla has something of a '30 square miles and a donkey' feel about it.
"If our Lord Jesus can ride into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, Richard Barrett can drive down Marietta Street in his Chevrolet pickup truck," protested Barrett before he was taken into custody.
"The pencils rained down blows on the donkey, the cat bit the donkey, the dog bit the donkey, and the crows pecked at the donkey," the book says.
"The pencils rained down blows on the donkey, the cat bit the donkey, the dog bit the donkey, and the crows pecked at the donkey," the book says.
"The pencils rained down blows on the donkey, the cat bit the donkey, the dog bit the donkey, and the crows pecked at the donkey," the book says.
"The pencils rained down blows on the donkey, the cat bit the donkey, the dog bit the donkey, and the crows pecked at the donkey," the book says.
Reserve Sgt. Amnon Pomeranz, 46, was stoned to death in the Bureij refugee camp Thursday after his car hit a donkey cart, injuring two Palestinian teen-agers.