tapir

英式音标：[ˈteɪpə(r)]

美式音标：['teɪpər]

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概况：

n. [脊椎] 貘

词义：

n.

貘；

变形

复数：tapirs

英英释义

tapir[ 'teipə, -piə, tə'piə ]

n.large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

用法：

权威例句

A new species of tapir from the Amazon

Tapir-Generated Seed Shadows: Scale-Dependent Patchiness in the Amazon Rain Forest

Diet of the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris L.) in French Guiana1

Diet of the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris L.) in the Tabaro River ...

Natural History of Baird's Tapir on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone

Digestive Seed Predation by a Costa Rican Baird's Tapir

Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in Southeast Brazil1

A NEW UPPER PLEISTOCENE TAPIR FROM ARGENTINA: REMARKS ON THE PHYLOGENETICS AND DIVERSIFICATION OF NEOTROPICAL TAPIRIDAE

The unusual development of the sagittal crest in the Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris)

Seed-dispersal and seedling recruitment patterns by the last neotropical megafaunal element in Amazonia, the tapir.

英语词源：

tapir (n.)

1774, perhaps via French tapir (16c.), ultimately from Tupi (Brazil) tapira.

造句：

1. a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra.

产于马来半岛和苏门答腊岛的貘。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. Twycross found a male tapir in Bristol.

特怀克罗斯动物园在布里斯托找到了一只公貘。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. long flexible nose of certain animals,eg the tapir

某些动物（如貘）的能弯曲的长鼻.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

4. Twycross found a male tapir in Bristol, and he and Debbie are joyfully united.

特怀克罗斯动物园在布里斯托找到了一只公貘。 现在，他已经和黛比快乐地结合了。

-- 来源 -- literature - 汉英

5. I may have dreamt the whole thing, but I could swear I heard on the news that Debbie, a tapir at Twycross Zoo, was pining away until a kindly keeper provided a TV and video.

一切可能只是我的一场梦，但我发誓，我听说了那则新闻。 特怀克罗斯动物园的那只名叫黛比的貘日渐憔悴。 直到有一天，一位好心的管理员为它带来了一台电视机和录相带。

-- 来源 -- literature - 汉英

6. South American tapir

南美貘

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

7. In the traditional genesis legend in Thailand, the Malayan tapir was made of redundant clay to explain its body shape both round and full.

有着圆鼓鼓丰满身材的貘，在泰国的传说中认为天神在创造动物时，搓圆了多余的黏土，而形成了这种动物。

-- 来源 -- 网友提供