| 正面 | 10790.reptile 英 ['reptaɪl]美 ['rɛptaɪl]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. par- "arrange, prepare, adorn" + -ade.2. => display, show, military parade.3. => "a show of bravado," also "an assembly of troops for inspections".adj. 爬虫类的；卑鄙的n. 爬行动物；卑鄙的人 例句： 1. Mammals arose from a fairly primitive reptile in the Mesozoic era.哺乳类起源于中生代宛若原始的爬虫类. reptile 爬行动物来自拉丁语 repere,爬行，-t,过去分词格，来自 PIE*rep,爬行。 reptile (n.)late 14c., "creeping or crawling animal," from Old French reptile (early 14c.) and directly from Late Latin reptile, noun use of neuter of reptilis (adj.) "creping, crawling," from rept-, past participle stem of repere "to crawl, creep," from PIE root *rep- "to creep, crawl" (cognates: Lithuanian replioju "to creep"). Used of persons of low character from 1749. Precise scientific use began to develop mid-18c., but the word was used as well at first of animals now known as amphibians, including toads, frogs, salamanders; separation of Reptilia (1835 as a distinct class) and Amphibia took place early 19c.; popular use lagged, and reptile still was used late 18c. with sense "An animal that creeps upon many feet" [Johnson, who calls the scorpion a reptile], sometimes excluding serpents. And the terrestrial animals may be divided into quadrupeds or beasts, reptiles, which have many feet, and serpents, which have no feet at all. [Locke, "Elements of Natural Philosophy," 1689] An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. [Cowper, "The Task," 1785] The Old English word for "reptile" was slincend, related to slink." |