griffin
griffin 英 [ˈgrɪfɪn] 美 [ˈɡrɪfən]
n. 格里芬（姓氏）；希腊神话中半狮半鹫的怪兽
名词复数:griffins
- If your little brother wants a pet griffin, you should probably try to talk him out of it. A griffin is a flying, eagle-headed lion with sharp talons. (Luckily for you, griffins aren't real.)
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- n. 格里芬（姓氏）；希腊神话中半狮半鹫的怪兽
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1. Even the safety officer and the chief engineer, griffin added, "agreed that we are not, with this decision, risking crew.
格里芬说，即便是安全主管和总工程师也同意，"做出这一决定，我们不会让机组人员冒风险。
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2. The crew exploration vehicle would replace the space shuttle, due to be retired in 2010, but not before 2012 and possibly as late as 2014 depending on the money available, griffin said.
到2010年，航天飞机将退役，被宇航员探险飞行器取代。 但这一计划在2012年之前很难实现，可能要推迟到2014年，主要取决于资金问题，格里芬说。
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3. The first thing one notices is the players he's being compared to -- griffin is on a trajectory that few have approached, and rookies of this quality virtually always turn into superstars.
最先应该注意的一点是与他作对比的都是些什么样的牛人——格里芬的正在遵循极少数人的轨迹，这样优质的新秀几乎必定成为顶级巨星。
- griffin (n.) c. 1200 (as a surname), from Old French grifon "a bird of prey," also "fabulous bird of Greek mythology" (with head and wings of an eagle, body and hind quarters of a lion, believed to inhabit Scythia and guard its gold), named for its hooked beak, from Late Latin gryphus, misspelling of grypus, variant of gryps (genitive grypos) "griffin," from Greek gryps (genitive grypos) "a griffin or dragon," literally "curved, hook-nosed" (opposed to simos).
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