英語單詞
1、長頸鹿n.
3、斜井提升礦車n.
4、地面翻(礦)車裝置n.
美國傳統詞典
(雙解)
giraffe
n.(名詞)
【複數】 giraffes 或 giraffe(不能寫girafves)
An African ruminant mammal(Giraffa camelopardalis) having a very long neck and legs, a tan coat with orange-brown to black blotches, and short horns. It is the tallest land animal, often reaching a height of 5 meters (16½ feet), and feeds principally by browsing in the tree canopy of wooded grasslands.
長頸鹿:一種非洲的反芻哺乳動物(長頸鹿) ,有很長的脖子和腿,有黃褐色到黑色的斑點和短短的角。它是陸上最高的動物,經常達到5米高(16.5英尺)。主要吃長滿樹木的草原上的樹木頂端嫩葉。
語源
法語
French girafe
girafe
from Italian giraffa
義大利語
giraffa
from Arabic dialectal zir³h
阿拉伯方言
zir³h
[probably of African origin]
[可能源自非洲]
英英詞典
giraffe
giraffes
Noun
tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
(synonym) camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis
(hypernym) ruminant
(hyponym) okapi, Okapia johnstoni
(member-holonym) Giraffa, genus Giraffa
例句引
1.How do you put a giraffe into are frigerator?
你怎樣才能把長頸鹿擱到冰櫃里?
2.Can I get the mommygiraffefor christmas?
我在聖誕節能得到一個長頸鹿媽媽嗎?
3.Also,she can't find hergiraffe.
還有,她找不到她的長頸鹿了。
4.Agiraffecasts a shadow against a wall at the london zoo.
在倫敦動物園,一隻長頸鹿的影子投射在牆上。
5.Ruthie wants to take one home with her,a babygiraffe.
露絲想買一個玩具回家,一個小長頸鹿。
6.Kate finds a second babygiraffe,caught between a buffalo and a penguin.
7.Agiraffefelled by drought lies dead on a road inwajir.
一隻長頸鹿由於乾旱死在路邊。
8.The results are lethal:some aerial surveys suggestgiraffenumbers around themara have fallen by 80% since 1979.
結果是致命的:一些航空勘測發現,自1979以來,馬拉的長頸鹿數量已下降了80%。
9.Why does thegiraffe's neck not become impossibly long?
為什麼長頸鹿的脖子沒有長得離譜?
10.But it was agiraffethat caused the biggest stir.
有關長頸鹿的問題產生了最大的爭議。
11.She picked the babygiraffefor her mother because it's her favorite.
她選小長頸鹿,是因為媽媽喜歡她。
12.Having agiraffe:a giraffe in transvaal,southa frica.
13.Agiraffecan clean its ears with its 50 cm(20in) tongue
長頸鹿可用其長達50厘米(20英寸)的舌頭清理耳朵。
14.Tie a
giraffeto a telephone pole or street lamp in atlanta,
georgia在亞特蘭大和
喬治亞州,不可以把
長頸鹿栓在電線桿子或路燈上。
15.The latest casualty was kim,a former circusgiraffe,whose limp corpse was winched from its enclosure on tuesday.
最近的受害者是kim,以前它是馬戲團的
長頸鹿;周二用
絞盤把它癱軟的屍體從籠子裡吊了出來。
16.Makers are people who create and share amazing things,such as a giant walking robotgiraffeor a hacked plug-in-only prius.
創作者都是喜歡創造與分享新奇玩意兒的人,例如能夠行走的巨大的機器人長頸鹿或者改裝過的普銳斯。
17.4Giraffebirth canal.mama giraffes stand up while giving birth,so baby's entry into theworld is a 5-foot drop.
長頸鹿媽媽是站著生育的,所以,長頸鹿胎兒是在高達5尺的下落中進入世界的。
18.One hastens to southern africa to chase thegiraffe;but surely that is not the game he would be after.
一個人加速去南非追捕長頸鹿;但那肯定不是他願追尋的獵物。
19.Nearly six centuries ago,ming dynasty sea farers reached the continent's eastern shores, and brought back agiraffeto satisfy the curiosity of their emperor.
大約600年以前,中國明朝的航海家就曾抵達
非洲大陸的東海岸,還帶回一隻
長頸鹿以取悅好奇的中國皇帝。
20.Agiraffe,for example,might grow a longer neck because it was useful for eating food that other giraffes could not reach.Its progeny would then inherit the attribute.
比如說,一隻長頸鹿之所以會長出長長的脖子是因為它能夠吃到其他長頸鹿吃不到的食物,而它的後代就會繼承這項特質。