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牲畜

shēng chù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

牲畜 (shēng chù) means "domesticated animals; livestock". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 牲畜 means

1. farm animal; livestock

The characters in 牲畜

• 牲shēngdomestic animal; sacrificial animal
• 畜xùto raise (animals)

Example sentences

• 图阿雷格人该把他们的牲畜转移到山谷去了。
  It's time for the Tuaregs to transfer their herds to the valley.
• 因为他们的财物过多，不能同居共处：他们寄居的地方也容不下他们，因为他们的牲畜甚多。
  For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.
• 在北方的原始部落中，也存在着一种更野蛮的庆祝形式：他们点燃巨大的木柴，以纪念奥丁和托尔，并向祂们献祭人和牲畜。德鲁伊王子随后用金色镰刀从神圣的橡树上割下槲寄生。
  A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids.

Where 牲畜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shèng–shí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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