Cannibal
['kænɪb(ə)l] or ['kænəbl]
解释:
(n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.
(a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.
编辑:尼特
解释:
n. one who eats human flesh.—adj. relating to cannibalism.—n. Cann′ibalism the practice of eating human flesh.—adj. Cannibalist′ic—adv. Cann′ibally (Shak.).
克利奥校对
娱乐性解释:
n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.
杰拉尔德编辑
娱乐性解释:
A heathen hobo who never works, but lives on other people.
校对:菲利斯
例句:
- Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Her father was a German Jew--a slave-owner they say--connected with the Cannibal Islands in some way or other. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- That he was a cannibal she would not believe, but that he was an adopted member of some savage tribe at length seemed possible to her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She has a cannibal taste for such churchyard furniture seemingly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He must belong to the tribes which attacked us, or to some other equally savage--he may even be a cannibal. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Many of these savages were cannibals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At war, the different tribes are cannibals. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
整理:劳拉