hippopotamus
河马
常用释义
英音[ ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs ]
美音[ ˌhɪpəˈpɑːtəməs ]
变形
复数:
hippopotamuses/hippopotami
基本释义
- n. 河马
例句
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1·The DNA suggests that whales are descendants of the hippopotamus.DNA 表明，鲸鱼是河马的后代。
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2·The UK government looks increasingly like a python that has swallowed a hippopotamus.英国政府越看越像是一条吞下河马的巨蟒。
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3·Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.艾萨克·牛顿爵士比起河马的体型可小多了，但是我们并不会因此贬低他。
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4·Only two-and-a-half weeks old but already weighing in at 40kg (88b), a baby hippopotamus swims alongside her mother, Kathi.这只有两周半大却重达40公斤（88磅）的河马宝宝正游曳在妈妈凯瑟琳旁边。
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5·We were walking along the bank of the Niger river, searching for the tracks of a hippopotamus that was ravaging the corn on Karim's farm.我们沿着尼日尔河岸走着，寻找一头河马的足迹，它毁坏克莱姆村农场农作物。
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6·Unfortunately this revelation about the hippopotamus apparently contradicts the fossil record, which suggests that the hippopotamus is only a very distant relative of the whale, not an ancestor.很不幸，关于河马的这一发现显然与化石记录相矛盾，化石记录表明河马只是鲸鱼的一个远亲，并不是祖先。
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7·And as happy as a hippopotamus.也像河马一样快乐。
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8·It is the hippopotamus child.是河马的孩子。
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9·These included a pygmy hippopotamus.这当中包括一头俾格米河马。
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10·The hippopotamus is a very strange animal.河马是一种十分奇怪的动物。
同义词
n.
[脊椎]河马