a dog that can run fast and has a good sense of smell, used for hunting 猎犬;猎狗 The hounds picked up the scent of the fox. 猎狗嗅到了那只狐狸的气味。 In drag hunting, hounds chase an artificial scent. 在追猎训练中,猎狗追踪的是一种人工臭迹。 We could hear the hounds barking at the fox. 我们可以听到猎狗正对着狐狸汪汪叫。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hunting
- pack
- bark
- bay
- pick up the scent
- …
- ride to hounds
Word OriginOld English hund (in the general sense ‘dog’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hond and German Hund, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kuōn, kun- ‘dog’.