river horse
英语[编辑]
其他形式[编辑]
词源[编辑]
仿译自古希腊语 ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos)，等价于 river + horse。对照中古英语 water hors (“河马”)。
名词[编辑]
river horse (复数 river horses)
- (过时) 河马
- 1808, Thomas Shaw, Travels Or Observations:
- The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.
- 河马以尼罗河的草本植物为食，据说这头庞然大物像牛一样吃草。
- 1849, Currer Bell [笔名; Charlotte Brontë], “The Winding-Up”, 出自 Shirley. A Tale. […], 卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC，页号 303:
- Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.
- 利物浦吓了一跳，喷著鼻息，就像一头河马在芦苇丛中被雷声惊醒。
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- 1909, George Meredith, The Palace of Aklis:
- Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]
- 在这里，在一场会让死者胃口大开的盛宴之前，有一些动物的形状，有人头、驴头、大象、公牛、马、猪、狐狸、河马、单峰骆驼； […]