AC相关的单词列表
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coach-box(n.)
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coach-horse(n.)
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coach-maker(n.)
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coachman(n.)
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co-act(v.)
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coact(v.)
"强迫,迫使",约1400年,源自拉丁语 coactare "限制,强迫",是 cogere(过去分词 coactus)的频率动词形式,意为"强迫",也可表示"凝结,收集"(参见 cogent)。相关词汇: Coacted; coacting; coaction; coactive.
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coadjacent(adj.)
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coal-black(adj.)
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cockroach(n.)
1620年代,一种麻烦的、贪婪的昆虫属的通俗名称,民间词源学(好像来自 cock(n.1)+ roach; 比较 cockchafer)西班牙语 cucaracha “金龟子,甲虫”,来自 cuca “一种毛毛虫”。民间词源学还认为第一个元素来自 caca “排泄物”,可能是因为这种昆虫有刺鼻的气味。
A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, "Virginia," 1624].
“一种印度虫,西班牙人称之为 Cacarootch,它爬进箱子里,用它们难闻的粪便吃掉并弄脏箱子。”[约翰·史密斯船长,“弗吉尼亚”,1624年]
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coelacanth(n.)
肺鱼目,1850年,源自现代拉丁语 Coelacanthus(属名,1839年,阿加西兹),来自希腊语 koilos “空心”(来自 PIE 词根 *keue- “膨胀”,也是“拱顶,洞穴”)+ akantha “脊椎”(来自 PIE 词根 *ak- “尖锐,上升到一个点,刺穿”)。因化石遗骸中支撑尾部的空心鳍条而得名。
认为它在6600万年前灭绝,直到1938年12月22日在南非东海岸捕获一条活体。这个标本被博物馆馆长玛乔丽·科特尼-拉蒂默注意到,她向南非鱼类学家 J.L.B.史密斯写了一份描述。
I stared and stared, at first in puzzlement. I did not know any fish of our own, or indeed of any seas like that; it looked more like a lizard. And then a bomb seemed to burst in my brain, and beyond that sketch and the paper of the letter, I was looking at a series of fishy creatures that flashed up as on a screen, fishes no longer here, fishes that had lived in dim past ages gone, and of which only fragmentary remains in rock are known. [J.L.B. Smith, "Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth," 1956]
我盯着看,起初感到困惑。我不认识我们自己的任何鱼,或者说任何像那样的海洋生物; 它看起来更像蜥蜴。然后,我的脑海里似乎爆炸了一颗炸弹,在那张草图和信纸的背后,我看到了一系列鱼类生物,它们像在屏幕上闪现,已经不在这里的鱼类,生活在遥远的过去,只有在岩石中的残骸被人们所知。[J.L.B.史密斯,“Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth”,1956]