dinosaur

英 ['da?n?s??] 美['da?n?'s?r]

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復(fù)數(shù):?dinosaurs;

dinosaur 恐龍

dino-, 恐怖的，詞源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龍。

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.

1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.: 恐龍峽谷中的化石都嵌在堅(jiān)硬的砂巖中。

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.

4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.: 亞伯達(dá)和薩斯喀徹溫省的許多山區(qū)發(fā)現(xiàn)了恐龍化石.

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(jù)了.