dinosaur
英 ['da?n?s??]
美['da?n?'s?r]
- n. 恐龍；過時、落伍的人或事物
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詞態變化
復數:?dinosaurs;
中文詞源
dinosaur 恐龍
dino-, 恐怖的，詞源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龍。
英文詞源
- dinosaur
- dinosaur: [19] Dinosaur means literally ‘terrible lizard’ (something of a misnomer, since dinosaurs are not particularly closely related to modern lizards). The word was coined around 1840 from Greek deinós ‘terrible’ (which goes back to the same Indo-European base, *dwei-, as produced English dire [16]) and sauros ‘lizard’ (which occurs in its Latin form saurus in the names of specific dinosaurs, such as brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus).
=> dire - dinosaur (n.)
- 1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek deinos "terrible" (see dire) + sauros "lizard" (see -saurus). Figurative sense of "person or institution not adapting to change" is from 1952.
雙語例句
- 1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
- 恐龍峽谷中的化石都嵌在堅硬的砂巖中。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.
- 最大的恐龍腦子大約有一公斤重.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Have you ever seen a dinosaur?
- 你看見過恐龍沒有?
來自辭典例句
- 4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.
- 亞伯達和薩斯喀徹溫省的許多山區發現了恐龍化石.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）
- 5. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.
- 博物館的底層為一具恐龍的骨骼占據了.
來自辭典例句