Leopard
['lepəd] or ['lɛpɚd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots.
(noun.) the pelt of a leopard.
琼整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.
校對:梅勒妮
解釋/意思:
n. an animal of the cat kind with a spotted skin now generally supposed to be identical with the panther:—fem. Leop′ardess: (her.) a lion passant gardant.
拜伦整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a leopard attacking you, denotes that while the future seemingly promises fair, success holds many difficulties through misplaced confidence. To kill one, intimates victory in your affairs. To see one caged, denotes that enemies will surround but fail to injure you. To see leopards in their native place trying to escape from you, denotes that you will be embarrassed in business or love, but by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties. To dream of a leopard's skin, denotes that your interests will be endangered by a dishonest person who will win your esteem.
手打:莫尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He still grasped Jane in one great arm as Tarzan bounded like a leopard into the arena which nature had provided for this primeval-like battle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was Sheeta, the leopard. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I know of one as big as a camel-leopard, by Jove. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- These marks, however, were not to bear any resemblance of the lion or leopard’s head, these being the hall-marks of England. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If _she_ were like a cathowever, _he_, quite as much, resembled a leopard: nothing could be lighter than his tread when he chose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was alive with lions and leopards and poisonous snakes. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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