According to the Chinese calendar, the Ox, or Cow, is an animal that brings prosperity through hard work. The outgoing Rat symbolizes wealth.

按照中国的生肖体系，牛是通过勉力劳动带来丰厚收获的象征，而鼠则代表了财富。

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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

牛犊必与小熊同卧。狮子必吃草与牛一样。

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My business friends year of the Ox sees, wishes everybody year of the Ox cow, New Year Wangwang!

我的商友们牛年见，祝大家牛年更牛，新年旺旺！

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In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.

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If you were born in the year of the Rooster, Dog or Ox (Cow), it is going to be a great year, says the report.

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In 2001, a gaur nicknamed Noah, a Southeast Asian threatened ox, was successfully created in the womb of Bessie, a cow, by scientists using a nuclear transfer process at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

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