shear

verb

/ʃɪə(r)/

/ʃɪr/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they shear	/ʃɪə(r)/ /ʃɪr/
he / she / it shears	/ʃɪəz/ /ʃɪrz/
past simple sheared	/ʃɪəd/ /ʃɪrd/
past participle shorn	/ʃɔːn/ /ʃɔːrn/
past participle sheared	/ʃɪəd/ /ʃɪrd/
-ing form shearing	/ˈʃɪərɪŋ/ /ˈʃɪrɪŋ/

Phrasal Verbs

[transitive] shear something to cut the wool off a sheep给（羊）剪（羊毛）
- It was time for the sheep to be shorn.是剪羊毛的时节了。
- sheep shearing剪羊毛
Topics Farmingc2
[transitive] shear something (formal) to cut off somebody’s hair剪（头发）
- shorn hair剪得很短的头发
- The prisoners’ hair was shorn.那些囚犯的头发被剪掉了。
Topics Appearancec2
[intransitive, transitive] shear (something) (off) (specialist) (especially of metal尤指金属) to break under pressure; to cut through something and make it break切断；剪切；断
- The bolts holding the wheel in place sheared off.固定这个轮子的几个螺栓断了。

词源Old English sceran (originally in the sense ‘cut through with a weapon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning ‘divide, shear, shave’.