dinosaur
英 ['daɪnəsɔː]
美 ['daɪnə'sɔr]
dinosaur 中文词源
dinosaur 恐龙dino-, 恐怖的，词源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龙。
dinosaur 英文词源
- 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.
dinosaur 双语例句
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。 来自柯林斯例句
- 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.
来自辞典例句
- 3. Have you ever seen a dinosaur?
- 你看见过恐龙没有?
来自辞典例句
- 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.
来自英语晨读30分（高一）
- 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.
来自辞典例句