tabby

英 [ˈtæbi]

美 [ˈtæbi]

n.  斑猫(毛皮灰色或褐色，带有深色斑条或斑点)

复数：tabbies　

BNC.26783 / COCA.24058

牛津词典

noun

• 斑猫（毛皮灰色或褐色，带有深色斑条或斑点）
  a cat with brown or grey fur marked with dark lines or spots

柯林斯词典

• 斑猫（毛皮上有深色条纹）
  Atabbyor atabby catis a cat whose fur has dark stripes on a lighter background.

英英释义

noun

• female cat
  Synonym:queen
• a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black
  Synonym:tabby cat

adj

• having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring
  Synonym:brindledbrindlebrinded

双语例句

• Two homeless Arcadia cats rescued by Christian Zwicky and his mother, Prince, the long-haired tabby, and Vladimir, the Russian Blue.
  两个无家可归的阿卡迪亚猫救出基督教兹维基和他的母亲，王子，长毛虎斑，和弗拉基米尔，俄罗斯蓝。
• Besides, if she'd been there, Bagpuss, the family's enormous tabby, wouldn't have been hunched on the doorstep.
  再说，她要是在的话，他们家的大猫，白格卜斯，就不会缩在门前的台阶上了。
• Also, after JKR describes the balls of lights speeding back to the lamps, she immediately brings up the tabby cat to shift the reader's attention away from the street lamps.
  同样的，JKR在描述火球迅速回到灯中之后，就立刻让花斑猫出场一起把读者的视线从路灯上转移开。
• I know I wouldn't want to lose Maggie, my collie, or Lucy, my Tabby cat, to a fire, carbon monoxide poisoning or Lord knows what else.
  我就不希望在火灾、一氧化碳中毒或其他灾难中失去我养的苏格兰牧羊犬麦奇和虎斑猫露西。
• Bundles of fluff: Doting cat owner Rosa Wardle shows off her pet Blue Snowman, left, while Yvette Barber holds up her Tabby Colourpoint Firecracker at the Supreme Championship Cat Show.
  绒毛团团：猫主人罗莎沃德尔十分溺爱猫，她展示了她的宠物蓝雪人（左），而右边理发师伊维特则带着她的爆竹虎斑猫来参加冠军猫展。
• She basked in the prosperity of the school like a purring tabby cat.
  她就象个悠然自得的，咕噜咕噜叫的雌猫一样，沉浸在这所学校的繁荣昌盛之中。
• When I went to the shelter, I saw an orange tabby and it was love at first sight for both of us.
  当我去的住房，我看到一道橙色的猫，它是一见钟情为我们两个人。
• Bushy-tailed European wildcat resembling the domestic tabby and regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat.
  尾部多毛的欧洲野猫，形似家猫，被认为是家猫的祖先。
• Eve made friends with her pet tortoise in the grass or romped with the black cat or with the tabby cat. Chang San said Li Szu had cheated at the mid-term examination, but Li Szu replied that the pot was calling the kettle black.
  艾芙与草丛中可爱的乌龟交上朋友，或者和黑猫或虎斑猫玩耍。张三说李四在期中考试中作弊，但李四回说〔他是〕龟笑鳖无尾。
• There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn't a map in sight.
  只见一只花斑猫站在女贞路的路口，但是没有看见地图。