tabby
tabby 英 ['tæbɪ] 美 ['tæbi]
n. 平纹；斑猫；长舌妇 adj. 起波纹的；有斑纹的 vt. 使起波纹
名词复数:tabbies
- A tabby is a house cat with stripes on its fur, often in browns and grays. There are different breeds of tabby cats. Occasionally one will dangle off a branch under a caption that says, “Hang in there.”
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- n. 平纹；斑猫；长舌妇
- adj. 起波纹的；有斑纹的
- vt. 使起波纹
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1. A biologist who has witnessed this carnage observed that "it is like a tabby cat attacking a hippopotamus".
一名生物学家见证了这场屠杀，从中观察到“这就像一只虎斑猫袭击一头河马。”
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2. By the next week, I had a gray tabby with snowcapped paws peering at me from the laundry basket in the closet.
一周之后，我衣橱的洗衣篮里就多了只小爪雪白的灰色班猫，在哪儿楚楚可怜地望着我。
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3. On June 4 a black bear wandered into a West Milford, New Jersey, back yard, was confronted by a 15-pound (7-kilogram) tabby cat … and fled up a neighbor's tree.
在六月四日，一只黑熊游荡进了新泽西州的西密尔福特一个后院，并且与一只15磅重（7公斤）的斑猫相遇……然后，呃——逃到了邻近的一棵树上。
- tabby (n.) 1630s, "striped silk taffeta," from French tabis "a rich, watered silk" (originally striped), from Middle French atabis (14c.), from Arabic 'attabi, from 'Attabiyah, a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was made, said to be named for prince 'Attab of the Omayyad dynasty. As an adjective from 1630s.
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