river horse
英語[编辑]
其他形式[编辑]
詞源[编辑]
仿譯自古希臘語 ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos)，等價於 river + horse。對照中古英語 water hors (“河馬”)。
名詞[编辑]
river horse (複數 river horses)
- (過時) 河馬
- 1808, Thomas Shaw, Travels Or Observations:
- The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.
- 河馬以尼羅河的草本植物為食，據說這頭龐然大物像牛一樣吃草。
- 1849, Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë], “The Winding-Up”, 出自 Shirley. A Tale. […], 卷 III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC，頁號 303:
- Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.
- 利物浦嚇了一跳，噴著鼻息，就像一頭河馬在蘆葦叢中被雷聲驚醒。
- Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- 1909, George Meredith, The Palace of Aklis:
- Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]
- 在這裡，在一場會讓死者胃口大開的盛宴之前，有一些動物的形狀，有人頭、驢頭、大象、公牛、馬、豬、狐狸、河馬、單峰駱駝； […]