opossum
英 [?'p?s(?)m]
美[?'pɑs?m]
- n. 負鼠；裝死
詞態變化
復數:?opossums;
中文詞源
opossum 負鼠
來自北美印第安土著語言。
英文詞源
- opossum
- opossum: [17] Opossum comes from aposoum, a word in Virginia Algonquian meaning literally ‘white animal’. The shortened form possum is virtually contemporary with it. When referring to the animal, opossum is now the more usual term, but possum holds its own in the expression play possum ‘feign death or sleep’. Dating from the early 19th century, it alludes to the opossum’s habit of pretending to be dead when threatened.
- opossum (n.)
- 1610, from Powhatan (Algonquian) opassum, "equivalent to a proto-Algonquian term meaning 'white dog'" [Bright].
雙語例句
- 1. Have you tried opossum shrimps? They are very good.
- 你吃過糠蝦 嗎,味道好極了.
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