英：['reɪt(ə)l; 'rɑː-]
美：['reɪtəl]
ratel如何读
ratel是什么意思
n. (名词)
- 【动】蜜獾（猫的一种）
- （=radiotelephone）无线电话
ratel自然拼读
ra·tel
reI tl [or] ra tl
ratel英英释义
- n.nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
ratel词源英文解释
Afrikaans, literally, rattle, from Dutch, from Middle Dutch — more at rattle
The first known use of ratel was in 1777
ratel 例句
1 That was the magic word the bird, who was a honey-guide by name, had shouted to the ratel, who was a honey-badger, you remember; and honey-bees they were that made the air delirious.
2 It is said also to dig up the nests of wasps in order to eat the larvae, as the ratel—a closely allied South African form—is said to rob the bees of their honey.
3 On the other hand, when the nest chanced to be in a tree, they knew the ratel could not reach it—this animal not being a tree-climber.
4 At least, they might have been house-flies for all the notice the ratel took of them, save now and then to bunch a dozen or so off his cowled head carelessly.
5 None of them, it seemed, was tickled to meet the ratel when he had finished.
6 Now, a ratel will do almost as much for honey as a bear for pork, a leopard for little "bow-wows," or a man for diamonds.
7 If he had done with the ratel, the ratel had not done with him.
8 I know not; neither did the ratel—nor care much, for the matter of that.
9 She went there a great deal to study the animals, and was particularly fond of the "poor dear ratel" that used to turn somersaults.
10 He wanted the gnu, and would be very pleased if the ratel would go away and leave it to him.
11 The ratel moved to meet him—to meet him—and at a cool jog-trot!
12 This was why the grunt sounded then that heralded the appearance of our ratel above-ground, and he himself appeared, emerging at his very own slow trot from his hole.
13 I have already alluded to the Cape ratel doing this on the look-out for bees.
14 All were blood-stained, but not a drop of it—not one drop—belonged to friend ratel.
15 The result was rather curious—it was also the ratel, or honey-badger, who had nothing at all to do with rats, but everything to do with honey, and was self-evidently more than three-parts badger.
16 The ratel did not leave go for some little time.
17 The ratel either could not or would not.
18 But it did not do what it was designed to do—it did not break the ratel's hold.
19 Next moment there was a thud—somewhat as if some one had punched a pillow—and the ratel was flying through the air, high and fine, in a graceful and generous curve.
20 The moon was up when the wounded mother ratel, on guard at the mouth of her burrow, looked up sharply.