Camel
['kæm(ə)l] or ['kæml]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
校對:莎娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicua, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).
(n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.
格斯編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an animal of Asia and Africa with one or two humps on its back used as a beast of burden and for riding.—adj. Cam′el-backed hump-backed.—ns. Cam′eleer one who drives or rides a camel; Cam′eline camlet.—adj. Cam′elish like a camel obstinate.—n. Cam′elry troops mounted on camels.—Camel's hair the hair of the camel: the hair of the squirrel's tail used for paint-brushes; Camel's thorn a shrub of the bean family which camels eat greedily.
錄入:特德
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain great patience and fortitude in time of almost unbearable anguish and failures that will seemingly sweep every vestige of hope from you. To own a camel, is a sign that you will possess rich mining property. To see a herd of camels on the desert, denotes assistance when all human aid seems at a low ebb, and of sickness from which you will arise, contrary to all expectations.
琼整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A quadruped (the Splaypes humpidorsus) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels—the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.
編輯:罗达
例句/造句/用法:
- I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In Smyrna we picked up camel's hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine--ah, in Palestine--our splendid career ended. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I shall say to myself, You look fine, Madam but your feet are not clean and you smell like a camel. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Some artists prefer to work directly on the stone with a camel's hair pencil, or with a composition called lithographic chalk. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- You see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th foot. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The models of that period are referred to as camel backs by reason of the location and shape of the gasoline tank on the rear mud guard. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is made of camel's hair, silky. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A camel did this for one of the boys, who was drooping over his saddle in a brown study. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His under lip hangs down like a camel's, and his ears are chopped off close to his head. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This reminds me that we have been trying for some time to think what a camel looks like, and now we have made it out. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The camel would not turn out for a king. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I know of one as big as a camel-leopard, by Jove. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In one of the battles in this civil war, Ayesha, now a gallant, mischievous old lady, distinguished herself by leading a charge, mounted on a camel. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As there are no dromedaries at hand, the band facetiously plays The Camels are coming. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Around it some camels stood, and others knelt. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You really ought to see their gold and silver camels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Camels are not beautiful, and their long under lip gives them an exceedingly gallus--[Excuse the slang, no other word will describe it]--expression. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The camels eat these. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Bored out of the place, and going in for camels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It was Eliezer and Rebecca: the camels only were wanting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Dining-room no less magnificent than drawing-room; tables superb; all the camels out, and all laden. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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