中英互译
hippopotamus
英 /ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs/美 /ˌhɪpəˈpɑːtəməs/
基本释义
- n.河马
复数hippopotamuses或hippopotami
词语例句
河马cn.
There are a variety of creatures of the East African savannas, like hippopotamus and rhinoceros.
东非大草原上生活着各种各样的生物,比如河马和犀牛。
- The DNA suggests that whales are descendants of the hippopotamus.DNA 表明,鲸鱼是河马的后代。
- The UK government looks increasingly like a python that has swallowed a hippopotamus.英国政府越看越像是一条吞下河马的巨蟒。
- Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.艾萨克·牛顿爵士比起河马的体型可小多了,但是我们并不会因此贬低他。
网络短语
- Hippopotamus pentlandi西西里马耳他河马
- pygmy hippopotamus侏儒河马
- Hippopotamus melitensis西西里马耳他侏儒河马
- Hippopotamus creutzburgi克里特侏儒河马
- Hippopotamus minor塞浦路斯侏儒河马
同义词
n.
[脊椎]河马
英英释义
- n.massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
- n.a very large animal with short legs and thick skin that lives in and near rivers
河马
词源
- hippopotamus河马hippo-,马,-potamus,河,词源同potamology,Mesopotamia.即河中的马。
- hippopotamus河马希腊词根hippo-表示马,potam-表示河,这样hippopotamus字面意就是“river-horse”了。《圣经》(约伯记)中记载的 behemoth [bɪ'hiːmɒθ] n.巨兽;河马,adj.巨大的;高大的,据学者考证应该就是河马。实际生物学上河马与猪的关系比与马近多了。