gregarious
gregarious 英 [grɪˈgeəriəs] 美 [grɪˈgeriəs]
adj. 社交的；群居的
- If you know someone who's outgoing, sociable, and fond of the company of others, you might want to call her gregarious.
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- adj. 社交的；群居的
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1. As some silk researchers see it, if spiders were gregarious vegetarians, the world might be a different place.
在一些丝类研究者看来，如果蜘蛛是一种群居的素食性动物，那世界肯定会变成另一副模样。
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2. The scientific endeavour itself is founded on values which natural selection would have seemed unlikely to foist on a bunch of violent, gregarious upright apes.
科学的努力的本身就是基于这样一种价值观上-自然选择似乎不会强加于这么一群暴力的，群居的直立行走的大猩猩上。
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3. Men are gregarious and generally live in groups, and monkeys also live, play and act together and are led by a monkey king, which has an absolute authority over the other monkeys.
人类是群居的动物，猴子也是成群地生活、玩耍和行动，且由一只猴王统领，猴王对其它猴子有着绝对权威。
- gregarious (adj.) 1660s, "disposed to live in flocks" (of animals), from Latin gregarius "pertaining to a flock; of the herd, of the common sort, common," from grex (genitive gregis) "flock, herd," from PIE *gre-g-, reduplicated form of root *ger- "to gather." Of persons, "sociable," first recorded 1789. Related: Gregariously; gregariousness.
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