Gargoyle

gargoyle



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【建】(多為怪獸像的) 滴水嘴

形象怪異的人



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–noun 

1. a grotesquely carved figure 

of 

a human or animal. 



2. a spout, terminating in a grotesque representation of a human or animal figure with open mouth, projecting from the gutter (排水溝) of a building for throwing rain water clear of a building. 



—Related forms

gargoyled, adjective





　

In a previous life, del Toro might have been a maker of clocks -- clocks inhabited by gargoyles instead of cuckoos, and which exploded on the hour. But there's a precision [to] the visual ornateness of "Hellboy II" 



that [exceeds] even [that] of its predecessor. 



It's certainly a more deliberately (and successfully) funny movie, thanks largely to the drily [ironic] Hellboy -- Ron Perlman, who returns with the rest of the cast, and with[out] whom an onscreen Hellboy would have been almost [un]thinkable.





bestiality menagerie

feral

reverted to the wild state, from domestication. a [pack] of feral [dogs] roaming the woods.  

ferrule

circular metal ring or casing placed over the wooden tip of an umbrella or cane

ferule

wooden ruler use to punish schoolchildren, figuratively, discipline



legume 豆科植物

vertebrate 脊椎動物

gill 腮

pectoral 胸鰭

Meager