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hind

adjective
🔊/haɪnd/
🔊/haɪnd/
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  1. the hind legs or feet of an animal with four legs are those at the back（四足动物的腿、蹄）后面的
    • The horse reared up on its hind legs.那匹马后腿直立，站了起来。🔊🔊
    opposite fore, frontTopics Animalsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryHind is used with these nouns:
    • end
    • leg
    • limb
    • …
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    Word Originadjective Middle English: perhaps shortened from Old English behindan, bihindan, from bi ‘by’ + hindan ‘from behind’.
Idioms
talk the hind legs off a donkey
  1. (informal) to talk too much, especially about things that are boring or not important唠叨个没完没了；喋喋不休

hind

noun
🔊/haɪnd/
🔊/haɪnd/
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  1. a female deer, especially a red deer; a doe 雌鹿（尤指雌赤鹿）compare hartTopics Animalsc2
    Word Originnoun Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hinde and German Hinde, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘hornless’, shared by Greek kemas ‘young deer’.