Triton
['traɪt(ə)n] or ['traɪtn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells.
(noun.) the largest moon of Neptune.
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon.
整理:弗娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.
(n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.
卡米尔錄入
解釋/意思:
n. (myth.) a marine demi-god one of the trumpeters of Poseidon (Neptune) his trumpet being a wreathed univalve shell: a genus of molluscs with a wreathed univalve shell.
胡安編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Lord Triton is precisely the man: full of plans for making the people happy in a soft-headed sort of way. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If you would have had Lord Triton down here to woo her with his philanthropy, he might have carried her off before the year was over. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If we were not so poor I would invite Lord Triton. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The amphibia (frogs, newts, tritons, etc. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:史黛西