animal
animal 英 [ˈænɪml] 美 [ˈænəməl]
n. 动物
名词复数:animals
- An animal is a particular kind of living organism, one that can move voluntarily and can find and digest food. Your favorite animal might be the naked mole rat, but probably not.
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- n. 动物
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1. a small furry animal
毛茸茸的小动物
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2. This product has not been tested on animals.
这种产品尚未在动物身上试验。
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3. She's not a political animal.
她不是搞政治的那种人。
- animal (adj.) late 14c., "pertaining to the animal spirit of man," that is, "pertaining to the merely sentient (as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual) qualities of a human being," from Latin animalis, from animale (see animal (n.)).
- animal (n.) early 14c., "any sentient living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," noun use of neuter of animalis (adj.) "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (from PIE root *ane- "to breathe;" compare deer). A rare word in English before c. 1600, and not in KJV (1611). Commonly only of non-human creatures. It drove out the older beast in common usage. Used derisively of brutish humans (in which the "animal," or non-rational, non-spiritual nature is ascendant) from 1580s.
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