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elephant

音標['elif?nt] 讀音

漢語翻譯


n. 象

英文解釋:

名詞 elephant:

  1. five-toed pachyderm
  2. the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

例句:

  1. The elephant smashed through the trees.
    大象在樹林中橫衝直撞。
  2. How many tons does this elephant weigh?
    這頭大象重多少噸?
  3. The mother elephant is one hundred times heavier than the baby elephant.
    這隻母象比小象重一百倍。
  4. The elephant grinds its food with/between its powerful molars.
    象用其強有力的臼齒嚼碎食物。
  5. A mammoth is a large hairy type of elephant in ancient times.
    猛獁是古代一種身體龐大、長著長毛的大象。
  6. He said he could eat an elephant to appease his hunger.
    他說他吃光一頭大象才能充飢。
  7. The elephant lowered its ponderous body into the water.
    大象把它那笨重的身軀浸入水裡。
  8. The elephant is the largest four-footed animal in the world.
    大象是世界上最大的四足動物

詳細解釋:


el.e.phant

n.(名詞)
Either of two very large herbivorous mammals,Elephas maximus of south-central Asia or Loxodonta africana of Africa, having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long, curved tusks of ivory, and, in the African species, large, fan-shaped ears.
象:兩種巨大的食草哺乳動物,中南亞的象屬 或者非洲的 非洲象屬 中的一種,皮膚堅厚, * ,長有一條長的柔韌的可以捲曲的鼻子,上顎二門齒髮展為長而彎的象牙。非洲象屬有巨大的扇形狀的耳朵
Any of various extinct or living animals related to either of these two animals.
象屬動物:任何一種絕種的或尚存在的與上述兩種動物中一種有關的動物

來源:
Middle English elefaunt
中古英文 elefaunt
from Old French olifant
源自 古法文 olifant
from Vulgar Latin *olifantus
源自 俗拉丁語 *olifantus
from Latin elephantus
源自 拉丁語 elephantus
from Greek elephas elephant-
源自 希臘語 elephas elephant-

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