dinosaur

英['daɪnəsɔː] 美['daɪnə'sɔr]

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复数: dinosaurs;

dinosaur 恐龙

dino-, 恐怖的，词源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龙。

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.: 恐龙峡谷中的化石都嵌在坚硬的砂岩中。

2. The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.: 最大的恐龙脑子大约有一公斤重.

4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.: 亚伯达和萨斯喀彻温省的许多山区发现了恐龙化石.

5. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.: 博物馆的底层为一具恐龙的骨骼占据了.