anaconda
anaconda 英 [,ænə'kɒndə] 美 [,ænə'kɑndə]
n. 水蟒；蟒蛇
名词复数:anacondas
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- n. 水蟒；蟒蛇
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1. anaconda sunning on a tree.
在树上晒太阳的水蟒。
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2. An anaconda in the Llanos of Venezuela.
委内瑞拉大草原上的水蟒。
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3. But Greene cautions that the team based their temperature calculations partially on the largest known size of an anaconda today, which the study pegs at 7 metres.
但是格林尼提醒说这个小组的气温计算仅仅是建立在那条最大的蟒蛇的基础上--那只七米长的蛇上。
- anaconda (n.) 1768, a name first used in English to name a Ceylonese python, it was applied erroneously to a large South American boa, called in Brazil sucuriuba. The word is of uncertain origin, and no similar snake name is found now in Sinhalese or Tamil. One suggestion is that it is a Latinization of Sinhalese henacandaya "whip snake," literally "lightning-stem" [Barnhart]. Another suggestion is that it represents Tamil anaikkonda "having killed an elephant" [OED].
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