n. wool shorn from a sheep:sheep 羊毛;羊
△As.2.4.79 (78): “But I am shepherd to anotherman. / And do not shear the fleeces that I graze.”但我只是給人家牧羊的,我喂羊,但是羊毛卻不歸我剪。
fleece
vt. strip,rob,plunder 把…剝光,搶劫,掠奪。
△1H.IV.2.2.93 (85): “Down with them! fleecethem!”打倒他們! 把他們的東西搶光!
△2H.VI.3.1.128:“Unless it were a bloody murderer,/ Or foul feloni-ous thief that fleeced poor passengers,”除非是血淋淋的殺人犯,或者搶劫可憐的行人的罪大惡極的盜賊。
fleece[fli:s]
n. 羊毛,羊毛狀物 v. 剪羊毛,敲竹杠,詐取
◇ fleece sb. of 詐取某人的財(cái)物
‖ fleecy adj. 羊毛狀的
fleeced adj.布面起絨的