| 英语单词 | reptile |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['reptaɪl] 美 ['reptaɪl] |
| 中文释义 | n.爬行动物;卑鄙的人 adj.爬虫类的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Snakes and crocodiles are reptiles. (2) Strictly speaking,a slow-worm is a kind of reptile. (3) This creature can be subsumed in the class of reptile. (4) The land is teeming with reptile life. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 蛇和鳄鱼都是爬行动物。 (2) 严格地说,蛇晰是一种爬行动物。 (3) 这种生物可以归入爬行动物一类. (4) 这片土地多爬行动物。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A reptile is one of those mostly scaly and slimy animals that are cold-blooded and have backbones. Lizards and turtles? Yep — both reptiles. Puppies and kittens? No way. |
| vocabulary扩展 | There are many classes of animals. People are part of the mammal class. Another class is reptiles, which are all cold-blooded vertebrates (meaning they have backbones). Snakes, salamanders, frogs, turtles, and crocodiles are all reptiles. You'll see plenty of reptiles at the zoo, and you'll see replicas of some at a natural history museum — since dinosaurs were reptiles. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]爬行动物 Reptiles are a group of cold-blooded animals which have skins covered with small hard plates called scales and lay eggs. Snakes, lizards, and crocodiles are reptiles. |
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