crocodile

• n. 鳄鱼

来自希腊文kroke, 鹅卵石，词源同sugar, 石粒，糖粒，drilos, 虫。

1. large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters

crocodile

crocodile: [13] The crocodile gets its name from its habit of basking in the sun on sandbanks or on the shores of rivers. The word means literally ‘pebble-worm’, and it was coined in Greek from the nouns krókē ‘pebbles’ and drilos ‘worm’. The resulting Greek compound *krokódrīlos has never actually been found, for it lost its second r, giving krokódīlos, and this r reappeared and disappeared capriciously during the word’s journey through Latin and Old French to English. Middle English had it – the 13th century form was cokodrille – but in the 16th century the modern r-less form took over, based on Latin crocodīlus.

crocodile (n.)

1560s, restored spelling of Middle English cokedrille, kokedrille (c. 1300), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Greek krokodilos, word applied by Herodotus to the crocodile of the Nile, apparently due to its basking habits, from kroke "pebbles" + drilos "worm." The crocodile tears story was in English from at least c. 1400.

crocodile shoes

鳄鱼皮皮鞋

牛津词典

The children walk in crocodiles from the schoolhouse to the dining-room for lunch.

孩子们排队从校舍去餐厅吃午饭。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a long crocodile of coaches.

排成一长串的长途客车

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The river is home to a fish and a crocodile.

河是鱼和鳄鱼的家.

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And then I saw this little crocodile.

这个时候,我看到了一只小鳄鱼.

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A crocodile was swimming near the bank with her baby.

一只鳄鱼带着孩子在河岸附近游玩.

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I think he was shedding crocodile tears.

我想他是猫哭老鼠假慈悲.

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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

最早的避孕药是鳄鱼的粪便, 公元前2000年埃及人使用过.

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He shed crocodile tears.

他假惺惺地哭了.

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Money, Crocodile lost his tooth. Have you seen it?

猴子, 鳄鱼丢失了他的牙齿. 你看到了 么 ?

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About three years ago Eva Salem got into some trouble with a crocodile.

大约三年前,伊娃塞伦因为一条鳄鱼而深受折磨.

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The little dough man sees a crocodile in the river.

橡皮泥小人看见河里有一条鳄鱼.

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This game is called: Hungry crocodile wants to eat fat hamster.

这个游戏的名字叫: 饥饿的鳄鱼要吃肥肥的金丝熊.

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She shed crocodile tears ( i.e. pretended to be sorry ) when she dismissed him from his job.

她把他解雇时,流出了鳄鱼的眼泪.( 假装难过 ).

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We came across a crocodile scarcely able to move after gorging on some dead animal.

我们看见一条鳄鱼在饱啖死犬之后,几乎一动也不能动了.

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The animation is based on the symbiosis between the egyptian plover and the crocodile.

这部短片是根据埃及一则千鸟与鳄鱼共同生活的故事为题材.

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They were only crying crocodile tears at the old man's funeral.

他们在那老人葬礼上的哭是虚情假意的.

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We researched for great references of tyres, albinos crocodile, big bird feet and bull.

我们研究了大量关于白化鳄 、 大型鸟类的脚、牛之类的参考资料.

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Mick : How do you converse with a crocodile?

你如何同鳄鱼交谈?

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The pictured critter was not even the elusive American crocodile , Crocodylus acutus.

图上的动物甚至不是神出鬼没的美洲鳄.

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Showman Tico Tarzan gets up close and personal with his new friend, a 16 ft crocodile.

表演家蒂科·尔赞与他的一只身长16英尺的鳄鱼朋友十分亲昵.

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The small crocodile thought along while and really devised a plan to come.

小鳄鱼想了半天,真的想出个办法来了.

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She sailed the whale on a sunny summer day, on the back of a crocodile.

她帆鲸在一个阳光充足的夏日, 在那之上背面鳄鱼.

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He showed his crocodile tears when aunt died.

他为姨母的死表现出来的悲伤是一种假慈悲.

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The crocodile eats the little dough man.

鳄鱼吃掉了橡皮泥小人.

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The crocodile killed its prey by keeping it under and drowning it.

鳄鱼把它的捕获物按在水下淹死.

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Use the crocodile clips to attach the cables to the battery.

用鳄鱼嘴夹把电缆接到蓄电池上。

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An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.

一项努力拯救一个鳄鱼物种、使其免于灭绝的行动已经开始。

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That was real crocodile skin.

那是真正的鳄鱼皮。

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