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kangaroo n.袋鼠 kangaroo (n.) 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aborigine word from northeast Queensland, Australia, usually said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo."In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean 'kangaroo' in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/. [Dixon] Kangaroo court is American English, first recorded 1850 in a Southwestern context (also mustang court), from notion of proceeding by leaps. 无

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[`kæŋgə'ru:] 【考】 kangaroo : marsupial / squirrel : rodent(袋鼠属于有袋动物/ 松鼠属于啮齿动物) n. 袋鼠【记】kang拼: 扛, a一个, roo肉: 身上有扛了一块肉, 是她的小袋鼠.【类】kangaroo: marsupial = squirrel: rodent袋鼠属于有袋动物 = 松鼠属于啮齿动物

单词	kangaroo
音标	[`kæŋgə'ru:]
解释	n.袋鼠
红宝书	【考】 kangaroo : marsupial / squirrel : rodent(袋鼠属于有袋动物/ 松鼠属于啮齿动物)
字源	kangaroo (n.) 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aborigine word from northeast Queensland, Australia, usually said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo."In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean 'kangaroo' in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/. [Dixon] Kangaroo court is American English, first recorded 1850 in a Southwestern context (also mustang court), from notion of proceeding by leaps.
不择手段背单词	n. 袋鼠【记】kang拼: 扛, a一个, roo肉: 身上有扛了一块肉, 是她的小袋鼠. 【类】kangaroo: marsupial = squirrel: rodent袋鼠属于有袋动物 = 松鼠属于啮齿动物
趣味全助记	无

Kangaroo Guugu Marsupial Cook Aborigine Word Yimidhirr Roth