giraffe

英语单词

1、长颈鹿n.2、鹿豹座n.3、斜井提升矿车n.4、地面翻(矿)车装置n.5、多层箕斗, 高空工作升降台n.

美国传统词典

（双解）giraffen.（名词）【複数】 giraffes 或 giraffe(不能写girafves）An African ruminant mammal(Giraffa camelopardalis) having a very long neck and legs, a tan coat with orange-brown to black blotches, and short horns. It is the tallest land animal, often reaching a height of 5 meters (16½ feet), and feeds principally by browsing in the tree canopy of wooded grasslands.长颈鹿：一种非洲的反刍哺乳动物（长颈鹿） ，有很长的脖子和腿，有黄褐色到黑色的斑点和短短的角。它是陆上最高的动物，经常达到5米高（16.5英尺）。主要吃长满树木的草原上的树木顶端嫩叶。

语源

法语

French girafegirafefrom Italian giraffa

义大利语

giraffafrom Arabic dialectal zir³h

阿拉伯方言

zir³h[probably of African origin][可能源自非洲]

英英词典

giraffegiraffesNountallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa(synonym) camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis(hypernym) ruminant(hyponym) okapi, Okapia johnstoni(member-holonym) Giraffa, genus Giraffa

例句引

1.How do you put a giraffe into are frigerator?你怎样才能把长颈鹿搁到冰柜里？2.Can I get the mommygiraffefor christmas?我在圣诞节能得到一个长颈鹿妈妈吗？3.Also,she can't find hergiraffe.还有，她找不到她的长颈鹿了。4.Agiraffecasts a shadow against a wall at the london zoo.在伦敦动物园，一只长颈鹿的影子投射在墙上。5.Ruthie wants to take one home with her,a babygiraffe.露丝想买一个玩具回家，一个小长颈鹿。6.Kate finds a second babygiraffe,caught between a buffalo and a penguin.凯特又找到一个小长颈鹿，在一只水牛和企鹅之间。7.Agiraffefelled by drought lies dead on a road inwajir.一只长颈鹿由于乾旱死在路边。8.The results are lethal:some aerial surveys suggestgiraffenumbers around themara have fallen by 80% since 1979.结果是致命的：一些航空勘测发现，自1979以来，马拉的长颈鹿数量已下降了80%。9.Why does thegiraffe's neck not become impossibly long?为什幺长颈鹿的脖子没有长得离谱？10.But it was agiraffethat caused the biggest stir.有关长颈鹿的问题产生了最大的争议。11.She picked the babygiraffefor her mother because it's her favorite.她选小长颈鹿，是因为妈妈喜欢她。12.Having agiraffe:a giraffe in transvaal,southa frica.有一只长颈鹿：南非德兰士瓦省的一只长颈鹿。13.Agiraffecan clean its ears with its 50 cm(20in) tongue
长颈鹿可用其长达50厘米（20英寸）的舌头清理耳朵。14.Tie agiraffeto a telephone pole or street lamp in atlanta,georgia在亚特兰大和乔治亚州，不可以把长颈鹿栓在电线桿子或路灯上。15.The latest casualty was kim,a former circusgiraffe,whose limp corpse was winched from its enclosure on tuesday.最近的受害者是kim，以前它是马戏团的长颈鹿；周二用绞盘把它瘫软的尸体从笼子里吊了出来。16.Makers are people who create and share amazing things,such as a giant walking robotgiraffeor a hacked plug-in-only prius.创作者都是喜欢创造与分享新奇玩意儿的人，例如能够行走的巨大的机器人长颈鹿或者改装过的普锐斯。17.4Giraffebirth canal.mama giraffes stand up while giving birth,so baby's entry into theworld is a 5-foot drop.长颈鹿妈妈是站着生育的，所以，长颈鹿胎儿是在高达5尺的下落中进入世界的。18.One hastens to southern africa to chase thegiraffe;but surely that is not the game he would be after.一个人加速去南非追捕长颈鹿；但那肯定不是他愿追寻的猎物。19.Nearly six centuries ago,ming dynasty sea farers reached the continent's eastern shores, and brought back agiraffeto satisfy the curiosity of their emperor.大约600年以前，中国明朝的航海家就曾抵达非洲大陆的东海岸，还带回一只长颈鹿以取悦好奇的中国皇帝。20.Agiraffe,for example,might grow a longer neck because it was useful for eating food that other giraffes could not reach.Its progeny would then inherit the attribute.比如说，一只长颈鹿之所以会长出长长的脖子是因为它能够吃到其他长颈鹿吃不到的食物，而它的后代就会继承这项特质。