2008年6月27日 星期五

Walrus (續:動物 植物 單字大集合)


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–noun

a large marine mammal, Odobenus nosmarus, of arctic seas, related to the seals, and having flippers, a pair of large tusks (獠牙), and a tough, wrinkled skin.  





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The painted bus and Dr. Robert (Bono) singing "I am the walrus" is a reference to psychedelic painted bus The Beatles had in their film Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (TV), as well as Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters who traveled around the United States in his bus. 





1. 缺乏

2. 消瘦 2.9 肥胖

2.5 顏色 

3. 貧窮 Meager



4.1 獸性

4.2 動物叫聲

Surfeit



4. 動物 



。綱目

vertebrate 

Edward Norton injured his back during filming, breaking three [vertebrae] after his horse threw him onto some rocks. 脊椎動物

vertebrae

Or you can puncture your vertebrae with a four-inch spinal needle.【解】脊椎骨

mollusk 

When the script is wrapping up, one by one, every charater comes to the icu, spits out [pearls] of wisdom like a philosophic [mollusk]. Of course she is going to stay! Who cares about Dennis, Kat, and Teddy. There is Adam, THE TRUE LOVE. 軟體動物

brachiopod 

mantle, Zoology. a single or paired outgrowth of the body wall that lines the inner surface of the valves of the shell in [mollusks] and [brachiopods]. 腕足類動物

taxidermy

I got some work at this little taxidermy shop. It's way out in Bilton. (動物標本) 剝製術



。洞穴

burrow 

furrow 

mole 

moll 

mull

study or ruminate, ponder

After mulling this [over] and reading y’all very passionate and interesting comments I think that the themes in the film are the themes we’ve been hearing from the administration and been living with but

which takes an even odder turn when Isaac magically starts to regain feeling in his legs, while Fiona mulls her [options],  den

His characters in "Bob" [glide] through gambling [dens] and nightclubs "in those moments," Melville tells us in the narration, "between night and day... between heaven and hell."

lair

Clarence, on the pretense of picking up Alabama's suitcase, walks into the [lair] of dreadlocked pimp Drexl.

pangolin 

raccoon

the movie looks away for a moment and Justin's crush, Rebecca, [transforms] from earnest do-gooder to raccoon-[eyed] burnout, a mutation any high school vet will recognize with a shiver.

clammy

winkle

This restaurant serves freshly [boiled] winkles.

He winkled the stone [out] from inside his shoe.

marvelling at its torments: tiny figures being [drowned] and [spiked] and winkled out of [shells] with a knife. 玉黍螺、蛾螺

conch

Next, you're gonna be gluing googly eyes onto conch shells 海螺

escargot

You've got your escargot, then. 食用蝸牛

cowry

Her husband looks on that radio as cowry, laughing at her all the time. Mme Azoulay has such a husband. 子安貝



。狐

shrew 

skunk 

weasel 

possum

to feign sleep or death. 

The baseball broke the window, but the children [played possum] when asked who had thrown it.

feign

She feigns [illness] in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder.

feint

a movement made in order to deceive an adversary, an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack

a feigned or assumed appearance

I pretended to be deceived by the feint and sent our horse to meet it. At that moment, the concealed [enemy] emerged from behind the kopje.

ferret 

to ferret [rabbits] from their burrows. 

to ferret [out] enemies. 

to ferret [out] the [facts].  

A creepy, [ferrety]-looking man, McGorvey freaks out the moms one day by jumping in among the kids at the public pool.

sable

I could buy a sable coat. 紫貂,黑貂, 美洲貂

mink

... and I'm going to smother her in minks and chokes her with diamonds. 鼬 (尤指水貂)

Next to that [sable], my new [mink] seems like an old jacket

vixen

herself oscillating between [cajoling] vixen and vicious cojones breaker--and [winsome] Amy Brenneman,



。人猿

humanoid

anxious-looking Alida Valli drives [by] night through the [deserted] suburbs of Paris, searching for a place to dump the [inert] humanoid passenger [slumped] in the backseat.

simian

long, simian [fingers]

Morgan has a thing for [gorillas]. He dotes upon them. He collects all sorts of simian paraphernalia  

With his head shaved and a simian [gait] held over from his epic-scale star turn in the Wooster Group's adaptation of O'Neill's The Hairy Ape,

orangoutang

Novel revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a [hyena], an injured zebra, an [orangutan] and a hungry [Bengal] tiger. 猩猩

baboon

a sequence where Brundle sends a [cat] and the surviving [baboon] through the telepods, 狒狒

as she and Lanna use the dead man's credit card to take off for a [prefab], all-inclusive resort filled with stoned young [baboons] on holiday,

rhesus


You can prepare me a small rhesus-negative Bloody Mary. 恆河猴

gibbon

Please keep your arms by your side. It's like dancing with a gibbon. 長臂猿

lemur

Bill, I can smell him on you. Benway marks out all those whom he has met like a lemur, pissing on a liana vine to mark his territory. You're a marked man, Bill. 狐猴





。貓科

。魚類

。海底動物

。昆蟲

Inveigh



。鬼魅

。豬怪

。爬蟲類

。鳥

Serpent



。鼠

。牛

。牛乳

Menagerie



。溫馴動物

。狗

Bovine



4.5 植物 

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