reptile

发音

英 [ˈreptaɪl]word uk audio image

美 [ˈreptaɪl] word us audio image

  • n.
    爬行动物
    卑鄙的人
  • adj.
    爬虫类的
    卑鄙的

单词词源

reptile 爬行动物

来自拉丁语 repere,爬行,-t,过去分词格,来自 PIE*rep,爬行。

双语例句

1. The tuatara looks like a lizard , but is actually a very different kind of reptile .
刺背鳄蜥看起来像一只蜥蜴,但它实际上是一种非同寻常的爬行动物。
2. Days before the year of the snake begins , there has been little affection for the slithering reptile .
而在蛇年即将到来之时,人们对于这种蠕动的爬行动物却没什么喜爱之情。
3. The reptile isn 't a triassic leftover , but the last remaining part of a varied and long-lived lineage .
这种爬行动物不是三叠纪的遗留物,但却是多样化长寿种群现存的一部分。
4. The little reptile looks like a lizard , but is actually the last remaining member of a different evolutionary branch called the rhynchocephalia .
小型爬行动物看起来像蜥蜴,但实际上它们是一种称为喙头目的不同进化分支最后遗留的成员。
5. This has made the tuatara another classic example of natural stagnation , with some researchers claiming that the reptile has remained unchanged for 220 million years .
这使得刺背鳄蜥称为另一种自然停滞的典型例子,一些研究人员声称爬行动物已经2.2亿年保持不变了。

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