解释
- n. [脊椎] 哺乳动物
※ 提供单词"mammal"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
mammal 哺乳动物
来自拉丁语mammalis,乳房的，来自mamma,乳房。瑞典生物学家林奈借用拉丁词来指哺乳动物。
英文词源
- mammal
- mammal: [19] Etymologically, mammal denotes an ‘animal that suckles its young’. The word is a derivative of mammalia [18], the term for that whole class of animals, coined by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus from Latin mammālis ‘of the breast’. This in turn was based on mamma ‘mother, breast’, which has been traced back to a prehistoric Indo-European *mammā.
There are obvious links with ‘mother’-terms in other languages, such as Greek mámmē, French maman, Italian mamma, Russian mama, Welsh mam, and English mamma and mummy, but whether a sustained chain of descent and borrowing is involved, or simply parallel formation based on the syllable ma, imitative of the sound of a suckling baby, is not clear. Mammary [17] is an English derivative of Latin mamma, in the sense ‘breast’.
=> mamma, mammary, mummy - mammal (n.)
- 1826, anglicized form of Modern Latin Mammalia (1773), coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis "of the breast," from Latin mamma "breast," perhaps cognate with mamma.
例句和用法
- 1. Its hairy body suggests a mammal.
- 它毛茸茸的身体表明它是哺乳动物。
- 2. The function of a mammal's fur is to insulate the body.
- 哺乳动物皮毛的功能在于使身体保温.
- 3. A whale is a kind of mammal.
- 鲸是一种哺乳动物.
- 4. The whale is the largest mammal in creation.
- 鲸鱼是所有哺乳动物中最大的.
- 5. There is a close analogy between the gills of a fish and the lungs of a mammal.
- 鱼的鳃与哺乳动物的肺很相似.
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