sire

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sire1 /saɪə $ saɪr/ noun 1 old usePGOTALK TO somebody used when speaking to a king 陛下〔对国王的尊称〕 The people await you, sire. 臣民在恭候您，陛下。2. [countable usually singular]HBA the father of a four-legged animal, especially a horse 〔四足动物的〕雄性种兽；〔尤指〕种马

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sire• But Rahy has made a bigger impact as a sire.• Torrey was also a very good sire, producing many excellent offspring.• On his sword was the rune of Khaine, a reference to the blade wielded by his mighty sire Aenarion.• This was achieved by three potent sires.• Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.• The sire is one of the country's top Thoroughbred stallions and his sire was the great Nijinsky.sire2 verb [transitive] 1 TAto be the father of an animal, especially a horse or dog 〔尤指雄性的马或狗〕生殖，繁殖 a stallion that has sired several race winners 繁殖了好几匹赛马冠军的种马2 old-fashionedSEX/HAVE SEX WITH to be the father of a child 为〔人〕之父 Sam sired eight children. 萨姆育有八个孩子。→ See Verb table

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sire• In many societies the father has no special responsibility to support the specific children he sires.• He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.• Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.• By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.• Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.• He's very old, and has sired nineteen sons on various women.• Stallions who run well on off-tracks tend to sire offspring that do the same.• The stallion has sired several race winners.Origin sire1 (1100-1200) Old French Latin senior “older”

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