rhinoceros
英[raɪ'nɒs(ə)rəs]
美[raɪ'nɑsərəs]
词态变化
复数: rhinoceroses;助记提示
1. rhinos "nose" => -nos => nose.
2. rhi- (前缀，无实义) + -nos (nose => -nos) => rhinos "nose".中文词源
rhinoceros 犀牛rhin,鼻子，-cer,角，词源同 horn.因这种动物鼻子如角而得名。
英文词源
- rhinoceros
- rhinoceros: [13] Rhinoceros means literally ‘nose-horn’. The term was coined in Greek from rhīno-, the stem form of rhīs ‘nose’, and kéras ‘horn’ (a distant relative of English horn). Greek rhīnókerōs reached English via Latin rhīnocerōs. The abbreviated form rhino is first recorded in the 1880s.
=> antirrhinum, horn, keratin - rhinoceros (n.)
- c. 1300, from Latin rhinoceros, from Greek rhinokeros, literally "nose-horned," from rhinos "nose" (a word of unknown origin) + keras "horn" (see kerato-). Related: Rhinocerotic.
What is the plural of rhinoceros? ... Well, Liddell and Scott seem to authorize 'rhinocerotes,' which is pedantic, but 'rhinoceroses' is not euphonious. [Sir Charles Eliot, "The East Africa Protectorate," 1905]
双语例句
- 1. Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.
- 卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. A rhinoceros lumbered towards them.
- 一头犀牛笨重地向他们走来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. Prehistoric in appearance, the rhinoceros is indeed an ancient species.
- 在外观上象史前动物的印度犀牛确实是一个古老的种.
来自辞典例句
- 4. The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart.
- 猎物保护区管理员用麻醉射器让犀牛静了下来.
来自辞典例句
- 5. He called me a rhinoceros three years ago.
- 三年前他骂我犀牛.
来自辞典例句