| 单词 | 大象 |
| 释义 | 〔ivory〕from Coptic ebou [elephant] 源自 科普特语 ebou [大象] 〔Nast〕German-born American editorial cartoonist whose caricatures inHarper's Weekly contributed to the downfall of the Tweed Ring in New York City. He also established the donkey and the elephant as symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. 纳斯特，托马斯：(1840-1902) 德裔美国社论卡通画家，他刊登在《哈泼周刊》 上的作品对特威德集团在纽约市的垮台很有影响。他还曾创作象征共和党的大象和民主党的毛驴形象 〔proboscis〕A long, flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.长鼻，吻：如大象的柔软而长的吻或鼻〔trumpet〕A resounding call, as that of the elephant.喇叭似的，类似大象发出的回声〔mastodon〕Any of several very large, extinct proboscidian mammals of the genusMammut (sometimes Mastodon ), resembling the elephant but having molar teeth of a different structure. 乳齿象：美洲乳齿象 属（有时为 乳齿象 )的几种已灭绝的高大、长鼻的哺乳动物，与大象外形相似，但臼齿结构不同 〔ivory〕A hard, smooth, yellowish-white substance composed primarily of dentin that forms the tusks of the elephant.象牙质：主要由象牙质组成的坚硬、光滑、黄白色的物质，这种物质构成了大象的牙齿〔flock〕 Herd is used of a number of animals, especially cattle, herded by human beings;or of wild animals such as antelope, elephants, and zebras;or of whales and seals.Applied to people,it is used disparagingly of a crowd or of the massesand suggests the gregarious aspect of crowd psychology. Herd 用来指一群牛等由人放养的动物；或是羚羊、大象和斑马等野生动物；也可指鲸或海豹。用于指人时，是对一群人或群众的蔑称，并且暗指大众心理的群体性特征。〔earwig〕In an Anglo-Norman text written around the beginning of the 15th century we are told that elephants guard their ears diligently against flies and earwigs.Elephants have good cause to protect themselves against these insects if, as folklore has it, earwigs go through the ear into the head.The earwig, however, prefers to dine on things such as flowers, fruit, and small insectsrather than brain tissue.Folklore is responsible, though, for the insect's name,which was formed in Old English fromēare, the Old English source of our word ear, and wicga, "insect,” a word presumably related to our word wiggle. 大约在15世纪初期，有一本盎格鲁·诺曼的课本提到大象很小心地保护它们的耳朵，以防苍蝇和蠼螋。民间传说讲，蠼螋会通过耳朵进入大脑，大象防范这些昆虫是很有理由的。但是蠼螋喜欢吃花朵、水果及一些小昆虫，而不是大脑组织。然而民间传说却产生了这种昆虫的名字，当时是由古英语词eare ，即我们的 ear 的古英语词源及可能和现代词 wiggle 有关的意为“昆虫”的 wicga 组成的 〔trunk〕A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.长嘴：象鼻或长虫的喙，尤指大象的可缠卷的长鼻〔cow〕The mature female of other large animals, such as whales, elephants, or moose.大型雌性动物：其他的大型动物（如鲸鱼、大象或麋鹿等）的母兽〔mahout〕The keeper and driver of an elephant.象夫：大象的饲养者及驱赶者〔jumbo〕After Jumbo , a large elephant exhibited by P.T. Barnum 源自 Jumbo ，P·T·巴南所展览的大象 |
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