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go·ril·la
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复数:gorillas
noun
a very large typically black-colored anthropoid ape (Gorilla gorilla) of equatorial Africa that has a stocky body with broad shoulders and long arms and is less erect and has smaller ears than the chimpanzee
an ugly or brutal man
thug, goon
“大猩猩”(Troglodytes gorilla)一词最早出现于1847年,由美国传教士托马斯·萨维奇(Thomas Savage)用于描述一种大型猿类。这个词源于希腊语 gorillai,是指一种野生、多毛的生物(现在被认为是黑猩猩),在公元前500年左右的迦太基航海家汉诺(Hanno)的航海记录的希腊文翻译中出现。据说这是一个非洲词汇。
In its inmost recess was an island similar to that formerly described, which contained in like manner a lake with another island, inhabited by a rude description of people. The females were much more numerous than the males, and had rough skins: our interpreters called them Gorillae. We pursued but could take none of the males; they all escaped to the top of precipices, which they mounted with ease, and threw down stones; we took three of the females, but they made such violent struggles, biting and tearing their captors, that we killed them, and stripped off the skins, which we carried to Carthage: being out of provisions we could go no further. [Hanno, "Periplus"]
“在最深处有一个类似于之前描述的岛屿,其中包含一个湖泊和另一个岛屿,由一群粗鲁的人居住。雌性比雄性多得多,皮肤粗糙:我们的翻译称它们为 Gorillae。我们追赶了雄性,但没有一个能够被捕获; 它们都轻松地爬上悬崖,扔下石头; 我们抓住了三只雌性,但它们挣扎得非常剧烈,咬和撕裂着它们的捕猎者,所以我们杀了它们,剥下了皮,带回了迦太基:由于没有食物,我们无法继续前进。”[汉诺,“周航”]
从1884年开始,这个词也用于形容看起来像大猩猩的人。
大猩猩
New Latin, from Greek Gorillai, plural, a tribe of hairy women mentioned in an account of a voyage around Africa
The first known use of gorilla was in 1832
gore1 of 4noun
a tapering or triangular piece of cloth (as in a skirt)
gore2 of 4verb
to cut into a tapering triangular form
to provide with a gore
gore3 of 4verb
to pierce or wound with something pointed (as a tusk or horn)
gore4 of 4noun
blood entry 1 sense 1aespecially: clotted blood
violent or bloody images
gorillanoun
a typically black ape of equatorial Africa that is much larger but stands less erect than the related chimpanzee
gorillanoun
a typically black ape of equatorial Africa that is much larger but stands less erect than the related chimpanzee
1 I felt like I’d just gotten the Heimlich maneuver from a gorilla.
2 I was awed by the huge gorilla.
那只大猩猩使我惊惧.
3 We started the next afternoon in front of the gorillas.
4 Although there is a separate room for one lone 800-pound gorilla, it was rarely mentioned.
虽然一只孤独的重达800磅的大猩猩有一个单独的房间,此事很少被提及。
5 Frank - at least Jason assumed it was Frank - had turned into a gorilla.
6 Gorilla babies and elephant babies and human babies are not so different, except that a gorilla gets to spend the day riding on his mother’s back, like a cowboy on a horse.
7 Then, once alone, Patterson heard Koko make the gorilla's distress call : a loud series of hoots.
在佩特森离开后, 她听到科科用大猩猩的方式表达了痛苦: 发出一连串大叫.
8 For some reason I started picking and flattening her cowlicks with my fingers like we were a couple of gorillas.
9 I watched the mother gorilla picking the bugs off her baby for a good five minutes before Liz cleared her throat.
10 I used to be a wild gorilla, and I still look the part.
11 “I’m here to say I’m sorry,” I said, and I smiled like I had just stepped on the toe of a three-hundred-pound gorilla.
12 “Six feet tall, arms like a gorilla, and ties her ponytail with wire. Probably uses it to strangle kids who cross her.”
13 I haven’t had much practice being a real gorilla, much less a silverback.
14 The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.
15 I consider lying, but gorillas are terrible liars.
16 The third gorilla was taller by a head.
第三只大猩猩要高出一头。
17 I live here because I am too much gorilla and not enough human.
18 Our closest animal relatives, the gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos of Africa, also live in bands.
19 Around that time, a population of African apes broke up into several populations, of which one proceeded to evolve into modern gorillas, a second into the two modern chimps, and the third into humans.
20 " Cold bad, Gorilla hate, " Koko tells me, as I stand, dripping, outside her caravan.
当我一身湿淋淋地站在她的屋外时,科科告诉我说: “ 冷不好, 大猩猩讨厌. ”
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