snout
snout 英 [snaʊt] 美 [snaʊt]
n. 鼻子；猪嘴；烟草；鼻口部；口吻状物
名词复数:snouts
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- n. 鼻子；猪嘴；烟草；鼻口部；口吻状物
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1. Soon enough she calmed down and rested her long snout against my forearm.
过了好一会儿她终于平静了下来，开始用她的长鼻子嗅我的胳膊。
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2. He wasn't startled to see its deformed face, either: "snout problems are common.
他看到猪变形的脸，并不感到吃惊，或者“猪嘴的问题是常见的。
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3. Fossils show how the nostrils of ancestral whales moved from the tip of the snout to the top of the head.
化石展现了鲸鱼的鼻孔是如何一步步地从它们祖先长鼻子的末端跑到头顶上去的。
- snout (n.) early 13c., "trunk or projecting nose of an animal," from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute "snout," from Proto-Germanic *snut- (source also of German Schnauze, Norwegian snut, Danish snude "snout"), which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose, imitative of a sudden drawing of breath (compare Old English gesnot "nasal mucus;" German schnauben "pant, puff, snort" (Austrian dialect), schnaufen "breathe heavily, pant," Schnupfen "cold in the head;" Old Norse snaldr "snout" (of a serpent), snuthra "to sniff, snuffle"). Of other animals and (contemptuously) of humans from c. 1300.
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