amphibious
amphibious 英 [æmˈfɪbiəs] 美 [æmˈfɪbiəs]
adj. [生物] 两栖的，水陆两用的；具有双重性的
- If you can drive your car down the highway and then go off road and ford a few rivers, too, you've got an amphibious vehicle — something that works on land and in the water, too.
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- adj. [生物] 两栖的，水陆两用的；具有双重性的
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1. After six decades as the globe’s uncontested amphibious leviathan, America is not ready to accept that this unique and useful capability will be shared.
六十年来，美国一直是世界上毫无争议的两栖霸主，到现在，它还没有准备好接受中国与其分享这一唯一而有效的军力。
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2. When, in the early ages of the Earth, land and water had not yet distinctly separated, huge misshapen amphibious creatures walked the trunk-less forests growing on the oozing silt.
在大地的混沌时期，水陆还没有清楚地分开，体积巨大、奇形怪状的两栖动物，在从淤泥地里生长出来的、没有树身的森林中行走。
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3. However, there are amphibious penguins and seals and a rich marine life, ranging from the minute organisms called plankton to the biggest creature the world has ever known, the blue whale.
然而，这里却有着两栖的企鹅和海豹以及丰富的海洋生命—包括从被称为浮游生物的微小生物，直到迄今所知世界上最大的动物蓝鲸。
- amphibious (adj.) 1640s, "combining two qualities; having two modes of life," especially "living both on land and in water," from Latinized form of Greek amphibios "having a double life; living on land and in water" (see amphibian (adj.)). Of motor vehicles, from 1915.
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