Withers

(noun.) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals.

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• The tender plant is produced; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The big gray was sweating and shivering a little and Robert Jordan patted him on the withers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Everything withers in the bud. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And it withers my consciousness, somehow, it burns the pith of my mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Sent to a schoolmaster, refuses to tell his letters, and the schoolmaster going to whip him, his hand withers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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