词汇 | hyena |
释义 | hyena Animalshy·e·na (also hyaena British EnglishBrE) /haɪˈiːnə/ noun [countableC] HBAa wild animal like a dog that makes a sound like a laugh 鬣狗,土狼 Examples from the Corpus hyena• It was as easy as killing a hyena.• Look at singer Linda Hopper, quite literally hopping on the spot and grinning like a hyena in an amyl nitrate factory.• I am out here alone, unprotected, only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions, buffalo, leopards and hyena.• Carrington's Self-Portrait of 1938-9 shows the artist seated in a room with a lactating hyena and a rocking horse.• The name of the elected man, the Faesis, means hyena.• No hyena wants to fight outside the pack.• Because of its well-endowed female, Aristotle believed the spotted hyena to be a hermaphrodite. (1300-1400) Latin hyaena, from Greek, from hys “pig” |
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