dinosaur是什么意思 dinosaur的用法 dinosaur怎么读
dinosaur
英 ['daɪnəsɔː]美 ['daɪnə'sɔr]
n. 恐龙；过时、落伍的人或事物
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中文词源
dinosaur 恐龙
dino-, 恐怖的，词源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龙。
英语词源
dinosaur
dinosaur: [19] Dinosaur means literAlly ‘terrible lizard’ (something of a misnomer, since dinosaurs are not particularly closely related to Modern lizards). The word was coined around 1840 from Greek deinós ‘terrible’ (which goes back to the same Indo-European base, *dwei-, as produced English dire [16]) and sauros ‘lizard’ (which occurs in its Latin form saurus in the names of specific dinosaurs, such as brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus).
=> dire
dinosaur (n.)
1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek deinos "terrible" (see dire) + sauros "lizard" (see -saurus). Figurative sense of "person or institution not adapting to change" is from 1952.
权威例句
1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
恐龙峡谷中的化石都嵌在坚硬的砂岩中。
2. The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.
最大的恐龙脑子大约有一公斤重.
3. Have you ever seen a dinosaur?
你看见过恐龙没有?
4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.
亚伯达和萨斯喀彻温省的许多山区发现了恐龙化石.
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5. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.
博物馆的底层为一具恐龙的骨骼占据了.
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