elephantine如何读

英:[ˌelɪˈfæntaɪn]

美:[ˌelɪˈfæntin]

elephantine是什么意思

adj. (形容词)
  1. 巨大的
  2. 象的
  3. 笨拙的
  4. 笨重的
  5. 庞大的
  6. 似象一样的
  7. 累赘的
  8. 沉重的
  9. 不雅的
  10. 迟钝的
  11. 厄勒番丁岛(尼罗河上的小岛)
n. (名词)
  1. 厄勒番丁岛(尼罗河上的小岛)

elephantine自然拼读

el·e·phan·tine

e l faen tin [or] e l faen taIn [or] e l faen tihn

elephantine英英释义

adjective

having enormous size or strength : massive

clumsy, ponderous

elephantine verse

of or relating to an elephant

geographical name

island in the Nile River opposite Aswân in southern Egypt population 1814

elephantine词源中文解释

1620年代,“巨大的”,源自拉丁语 elephantinus “关于大象的”,来自 elephantus(参见 elephant)。 “关于大象的”意思来自1670年代。更早的形容词是 elephantic(1590年代)。

elephantine词源英文解释

The first known use of elephantine was in 1610

elephantine儿童词典英英释义

elephantnoun

any of a family of huge thickset nearly hairless mammals that have the snout lengthened into a trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed into long outward-curving pointed ivory tusks and that include two living forms:

one with large ears that occurs in tropical Africa

one with relatively small ears that occurs in forests of southeastern Asia

elephantineadjective

very big : huge, massive

lacking grace

of or relating to an elephant

elephantine 例句

1 Indeed, the jet’s elephantine proportions were both a gift and a challenge to the travel industry.

2 It’s the puzzle as pastiche, at once an absurdist riff and an endearing, elephantine folly.

3 In performance, the trombone dominated, drawing attention to Mr. Taylor’s remarkable versatility, particularly the braying, elephantine sound he produced in one of three vamps.

4 And in “the ultimate expression of sheer, elephantine joy,” the animals then let loose with bladder and bowels.

5 Tweaks to its air springs and adaptive dampers lessen this elephantine SUV's body motions with little sacrifice to its ride quality.

6 “He is mostly evasive. His pauses are elephantine. Broadway musicals could be mounted during his pauses.”

7 The elephantine grand piano can easily bully its smaller partners or timidly overcompensate.

8 Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life.

9 The utopian task Moss said she alone could do would be to galvanize an elephantine organization into employing its massive resources toward the rejuvenation of the very art of performance.

10 His mind is sharp, his memory elephantine, and he bristles with energy and vigour.

梅莱斯头脑敏锐,记忆超群,精力充沛,活力四射。

11 He could play Oscar Wilde if you put him in a long wig – he's so kind of slobby and elephantine.

12 “Pachyderm Shout” opened in a lumbering rut, with bowed bass and bass clarinet, before the action shifted to the trombones, in a testifying chorus of elephantine harrumphs.

13 Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea.

14 Technology of 1 Baidu oneself appears serious problem, the elephantine lotus elder sister with Baidu fat now spider , still be in all the time self-reliant beauty.

百度自身技术出现严重问题,百度蜘蛛现在胖的象芙蓉姐姐,还一直在自恃美丽。

15 An elephantine sculpture in front of the Seagram Building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street has much going for it: impressive scale, contrast with the normal environment and popularly appealing imagery.

16 Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure.

17 ...elephantine clumsiness...

因块头大而造成的笨拙

18 Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positive ly elephantine.

他们的女儿很胖;可是儿子呢,简直像大象。

19 Also in the “Art and the Divine” gallery, an eighth-century Indian sandstone sculpture of a dancing Ganesha is accompanied by a video showing a contemporary dancer evoking the elephantine god’s movements.

20 Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positively elephantine.

他们的女儿很胖;可是儿子呢,简直像大象。

elephantine 同义词

2 过大的

oversize overinflated

15 大象

elephant

18 迟缓的

tardy dilatory

19 硕大的

fine

24 不灵活的

stiff tactless

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