crocodile['krɒkәdail]
汉语翻译
n. 鳄鱼
英语解释
名词 crocodile:
- large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters
例句
- Leather made from crocodile skin.鳄鱼皮革用鳄鱼皮做成的皮革
- She go up the Nile as far as the first crocodile.她溯尼罗河之源而上,直至遇上第一条鳄鱼。
- There are crocodiles in this river.这条河里有鳄鱼。
详细解释
croc.o.dile
n.(名词)Any of various large aquatic reptiles, chiefly of the genus
Crocodylus, native to tropical and subtropical regions and having thick, armorlike skin and long, tapering jaws. 鳄鱼:任一种原产于热带和亚热带地区的
鳄 属大型水栖爬行动物,生有厚的、甲状皮肤以及长而逐渐变细的尾巴 A crocodilian reptile, such as an alligator, a caiman, or a gavial.鳄类动物:鳄类爬行动物,如短吻鳄、凯门鳄或长吻鳄Leather made from crocodile skin.鳄鱼皮革:用鳄鱼皮做成的皮革
来源:Middle English
cocodril 中古英语
cocodril from Old French 源自 古法语 from Latin
cocodrillus [variant of] crocodolus 源自 拉丁语
cocodrillus [] crocodolus的变体 from Greek
krokodilos 源自 希腊语
krokodilos krokô [pebble]
krokô [卵石]
drilos [circumcised man, worm]
drilos [受割的人,蠕虫]
<注释>The crocodile may owe its name to its resemblance to a much smaller creature, a lizard that lived in the stone walls of Ionia.This lizard`s name,
krokodilos, is thought to be a compound of
krokô, .pebble, gravel,. and
drilos, which is only attested as meaning .circumcised man. but is assumed to mean .worm. as well. According to Herodotus, Ionians in Egypt noted the resemblance, probably humorously, between basking crocodiles and their own .worm of the stones..The modern form of English
crocodile represents a return to the Classical Latin spelling
crocodolus, Latin having borrowed the word from Greek.But other spellings occurred in Classical Greek and Latin, and one of these Latin spellings,
cocodrillus, passed into Medieval Latin and Old French (
cocodril ) and then into English, so that our earliest possible use of the word, in a work perhaps composed before 300, is spelled
cokedrille. It was not until the 'th century that the word came to have its present spelling.The various spellings met with in the history of
crocodile reflect the same sort of variations that occurred in the history of
alligator. 鳄鱼可能是因为与一种比它小得多的生物,即生长在爱奥尼亚的石墙中的蜥蜴外表相似而得名。这种蜥蜴的名字
krokodilos 被认为是由
kroke (意为.卵石,砾石.)一词和
drilos 这一(只被证明有.受割的人.的意思但又被假定有.蠕虫.的意思的)词组成的复合词。 希罗多德认为,埃及境内的爱奥尼亚人可能出于幽默而记下了晒太阳的鳄鱼和他们本地的.石头中的蠕虫.之间的类似点。英语的
crocodile 的现代形式反映了古拉丁语拼法
crocodilus 的回归, 拉丁语中的这个词是从希腊语中引入的。但是出现在古希腊语和古拉丁语中的其它拼法以及其中一种拉丁语拼法,
cocodrillus , 却进入到中世纪拉丁语和古法语(
cocodril )中,然后又进入到英语中, 所以出现在可能写于300年以前的一篇文章中的我们最早有可能使用该词时的拼法是
cokedrille 。 直到'世纪,这个词才变成现在这种拼法。在
crocodile 一词的演变历史中的多种拼法也反映了在
alligator 一词的演变历史中的相似变化 注释>