hippopotamus
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英[,hɪpə'pɒtəməs]
|美[ˌhɪpəˈpɑːtəməs]
日语:カバ
法语:hippopotame
德语:Nilpferd
韩语:하마
俄语:hipopótamo
牛津词典
noun
- 河马
a large heavy African animal with thick dark skin and short legs, that lives in rivers and lakes
中文词源
hippopotamus 河马
hippo-,马,-potamus,河,词源同potamology,Mesopotamia.即河中的马。
双语例句
- A Chinese tourist was attacked and killed by a hippopotamus that strayed from Lake Naivasha into the compound of a hotel where she was staying.
一名中国游客在肯尼亚著名旅游景点纳瓦沙湖附近遭河马袭击身亡,据悉河马是误入了这名游客所在的酒店区域。
- Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippopotamus set out to return to New York after escaping to Africa.
结束了非洲旅程后,狮子亚利克斯、斑马马蒂、长颈鹿麦尔曼以及河马格洛丽亚铁了心的要回到纽约老家。
- The baby hippopotamus has not yet been given a name.
小河马还没名字呢。
- According to a handful of Egyptologists, one of the most likely causes for this wound would have been a bite from a hippopotamus.
一部分埃及古物学者认为,这一致命伤口可能是河马咬的。
- A12-day-old hippopotamus swims next to its mother, Chombi, at Malaysia's National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur.
马来西亚KualaLumpur的国家动物园中河马妈妈Chombi带着12天大的小河马一起游泳。
- Along with the feeding of live prey to zoo animals, it would prohibit serving zoo animals including hippopotamus foot and kangaroo tail in the Beijing Zoo restaurant.
连同在动物园喂养动物活的家禽一起,北京的餐厅也将停止服务提供动物食用像河马脚,或者袋鼠尾巴。
- The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and a variety of venomous snakes.
这里的三个国家公园既是迁徙水鸟的中途停留地,也是尼罗河鳄鱼、河马和各种毒蛇的栖息地。
- With a baby hippopotamus strapped to your
把一个小河马绑在你的
- Let's begin with the ugliest hippopotamus.
我们先看最丑的河马吧。
- The Dragon and Hippopotamus Kingdoms will support each that chooses to enter Tao time in learning the necessary algorithms to do so.
龙与河马王国将支持每一个选择进入『道时间』的人们来学会必要的运作法则这么做。
- The Pygmy Hippopotamus stands about one metre high and is native to West Africa. Numbers in the wild have fallen to below 2000 since 1993.
只有1米多高的矮脚河马生活在西非,从1993年起这种动物在野外的数量不足2000只。
- It is the hippopotamus child.
是河马的孩子。
- A woman called to make reservations," I want to go from Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York "The agent was at a loss for words.
一女士打电话来预定,“我想从芝加哥到纽约的河马。”代理对她的话迷惑不解。
- These two chapters describe the nature and habits of the hippopotamus and the whale(" leviathan").
这两个章节描述的性质和习惯的河马和鲸。
- The hippopotamus can survive underwater for up to30 minutes without having to come up for air.
河马在不浮上水面换气的情况下,可以在水下度过30分钟以上。
- A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.
一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
- The hippopotamus, or hippo, lives in the hot part of Africa, it's a mammal, that is, its babies are born alive, and they drink milk from their mother's body.
河马住在非洲的热的部分,它是哺乳动物,也就是说,它的孩子们生下来是活的,而且,它们喝妈妈身上的牛奶。
- He must have the strength of a hippopotamus, or he never could have vanquished that great beast.
他是力大如河马,否则他绝不会击败那只庞大的野兽。
- Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
本税则所称“兽牙”,是指象、河马、海象、一角鲸和野猪的长牙、犀角及其他动物的牙齿。
- Visitors can watch a hippopotamus in the West African River Experience area of the Adventure Aquarium.
游客能够在冒险水族馆的西非河流体验区中看到一匹河马。
- The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing ( about) in the mud.
孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
- For you and me. What's normal for a hippopotamus?
是对你和我来讲对河马来讲怎样算正常?
- Others use a ring of buffalo horn, a crimson thread tied round each toe, the powdered teeth of a sea-horse, the skin of an eel, a hippopotamus tooth.
其他人有用水牛角的戒指,系在每个脚趾上红线,涂上粉末的海马牙,鳗鱼皮,河马牙。
- After some searching, the agent came back with," I'm sorry, ma'am, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Hippopotamus anywhere. "
做了一些搜索之后,代理回来说:“对不起,女士,我查了这个国家所有的机场代码,怎么也找不到叫做河马的啊。”
- It is found that C. The first occurrence of fossil hippopotamus in China
河马化石在我国的发现
语源
Middle English: via Latin from Greek hippopotamos, earlier hippos ho potamiosriver horse (from hipposhorse, potamosriver)