platypus
英 ['pl?t?p?s]
美['pl?t?p?s]
- n. [脊椎] 鴨嘴獸
IELTS暢通詞匯哺乳動物
詞態變化
復數:?platypuses;? platypi;
中文詞源
platypus 鴨嘴獸
來自希臘語platypous,寬腳的，來自platys,寬的，詞源同plate,pous,腳，詞源同foot.后用于鴨嘴獸這種動物，因其腳寬而得名。
英文詞源
- platypus
- platypus: [18] The platypus’s name means literally ‘flat-footed’. It was given to it at the end of the 18th century, and is first recorded in George Shaw’s Naturalists’ Miscellany 1799. It was adapted from Greek platúpous, a compound formed from platús ‘flat’ (source of English place, plaice, and plane the tree) and poús ‘foot’ (a relative of English foot).
=> foot, place, plane, plate - platypus (n.)
- Australian duck-mole, 1799, from Modern Latin, from Greek platypous, literally "flat-footed," from platys "broad, flat" (see plaice (n.)) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).
Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus. [OED]
雙語例句
- 1. One of the mascots was the platypus.
- 吉祥物一是鴨嘴獸.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. At home both in water and on land, the platypus is amphibious.
- 鴨嘴獸的家可以在水中,也可以在陸上.它是兩棲動物.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）
- 3. Not many people could describe a platypus because few have seen one.
- 很少有人能描述鴨嘴獸,因為幾乎沒有人見過它.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）
- 4. For this reason, scientists know less about the platypus than they would like to know.
- 因為這個原因, 科學家對它知之甚少.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）
- 5. Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia.
- 最近,研究人員們為一直來自澳大利亞的雌性鴨嘴獸繪制了基因圖.
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