记忆方法
将“dinosaur”分解为“dis”和“nosaur”。想象一个故事：“dis”像是一把尺子，测量着巨大的“nos”（鼻子）。故事暗示着恐龙（dinosaur）的巨大体型和它们长长的鼻子。通过这样的联想，可以帮助记忆这个词的含义。
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中文词源
dinosaur 恐龙
dino-, 恐怖的，词源同dire. -saur，蜥蜴，用于指恐龙。
英语词源
- dinosaur
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dinosaur: [19] Dinosaur means literally ‘terrible lizard’ (something of a misnomer, since dinosaurs are not particularly closely related to modern lizards). The word was coined around 1840 from Greek deinós ‘terrible’ (which goes back to the same Indo-European base, *dwei-, as produced English dire [16]) and sauros ‘lizard’ (which occurs in its Latin form saurus in the names of specific dinosaurs, such as brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus).
=> dire - dinosaur (n.)
- 1841, coined in Modern Latin by Sir Richard Owen, from comb. form of Greek deinos "terrible" (see dire) + sauros "lizard" (see -saurus). Figurative sense of "person or institution not adapting to change" is from 1952.
权威例句
- 1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
- 恐龙峡谷中的化石都嵌在坚硬的砂岩中。
- 2. The largest brain possessed by any dinosaur weighed about a kilogram.
- 最大的恐龙脑子大约有一公斤重.
- 3. Have you ever seen a dinosaur?
- 你看见过恐龙没有?
- 4. In Alberta and Saskatchewan there are many hills where dinosaur bones were found.
- 亚伯达和萨斯喀彻温省的许多山区发现了恐龙化石.
- 5. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.
- 博物馆的底层为一具恐龙的骨骼占据了.