羊

十二生肖是由十一種源於自然界的動物即鼠、牛、虎、兔、蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞、狗、豬以及傳說中的龍組成的，用於紀年。

The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.

毫無疑問，人們最初崇拜的都是那些最常見、與人們生活關系最緊密的動物，例如馬、牛、羊、雞、犬等等。

Without doubt, what people worship first is what they see most often; for example, the animals that had the closest connection to people's lives, like the horse, the cow, the sheep, the rooster, the dog and so on.

湯姆的叔叔養了很多羊。

Tom's uncle keeps a lot of sheep.

马、狮、犬、羊：这些是动物。

馬、獅、犬、羊：這些是動物。

Horse, lion, dog, goat: these are animals.

如果一个人有11只羊，除了9只之外，其他全部死了，那么他还剩下几只羊呢？

如果一個人有11只羊，除了9只之外，其他全部死了，那麼他還剩下幾隻羊呢？

If a man had 11 sheep and all but 9 died, how many sheep would he have left?