hippopotamus
hippopotamus 英 [ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməs] 美 [ˌhɪpəˈpɑtəməs]
n. [脊椎] 河马
名词复数:hippopotamuss
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- n. [脊椎] 河马
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1. The UK government looks increasingly like a python that has swallowed a hippopotamus.
英国政府越看越像是一条吞下河马的巨蟒。
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2. Still, now we knew for sure where whales came from and that the hippopotamus theory wasn't complete science fiction.
虽然，我们现在已肯定知道鲸来自何处，但是我们也清楚了，河马之说还不够完整。
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3. We were walking along the bank of the Niger river, searching for the tracks of a hippopotamus that was ravaging the corn on Karim's farm.
当时，我们正走在尼日尔的河岸上，寻找着毁坏克莱姆村农场农作物的罪魁祸手河马的踪迹。
- hippopotamus (n.) omnivorous ungulate pachydermatous mammal of Africa, 1560s, from Late Latin hippopotamus, from Greek hippopotamus "riverhorse," an irregular formation from earlier ho hippos potamios "the horse of the river"), from hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + adjective from potamos "river, rushing water" (see potamo-). Replaced Middle English ypotame (c. 1300), which is from the same source but deformed in Old French. Glossed in Old English as sæhengest.
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