英语单词

hippopotamus是什么意思

hippopotamus

英[,hɪpə'pɒtəməs] |美[ˌhɪpəˈpɑːtəməs]
    n.河马(产于非洲)
日语:カバ 法语:hippopotame 德语:Nilpferd 韩语:하마 俄语:hipopótamo

牛津词典

noun

  1. 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

    1. 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。
    2. 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。
    3. The baby hippopotamus has not yet been given a name.
      小河马还没名字呢。
    4. 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。
    5. 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。
    6. 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。
    7. 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。
    8. With a baby hippopotamus strapped to your
      把一个小河马绑在你的
    9. Let's begin with the ugliest hippopotamus.
      我们先看最丑的河马吧。
    10. 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。
    11. 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。
    12. It is the hippopotamus child.
      是河马的孩子。
    13. 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。
    14. 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。
    15. 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。
    16. A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.
      一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
    17. 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。
    18. 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。
    19. 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。
    20. 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。
    21. 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。
    22. 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?
    23. 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。
    24. 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。”
    25. 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)


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