buffalo
英 [ˈbʌf.ə.ləʊ]
美 [ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ]
- n. [畜牧][脊椎] 水牛；[脊椎] 野牛（产于北美）；水陆两用坦克
- n. (Buffalo)人名；(英)布法罗
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布法罗（水牛城）--- 美国城市名。
中文词源
buffalo 水牛
词源同bov, 牛，见bovine, 牛的。
英语词源
- buffalo
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buffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the ‘water buffalo’, Bubalis bubalis, a large oxlike animal of Asia and Africa, and subsequently extended to the ‘Cape buffalo’ of South Africa, Syncerus caffer. The Portuguese word came from late Latin bufalus, an alteration of Latin bubalus, which was borrowed from Greek boúbalos. The Greek word, which seems to have named a type of African gazelle, may have been formed from bous ‘ox’. The application of the word to the North American bison, which is still regarded as ‘incorrect’, dates from the late 18th century.
=> buff - buffalo (n.)
- 1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from Middle French), from Portuguese bufalo "water buffalo," from Latin bufalus, variant of bubalus "wild ox," from Greek boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, perhaps from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822.
- Buffalo
- city in western New York state, U.S., of disputed origin (there never were buffalo thereabouts), perhaps from the name of a native chief, or a corruption of French beau fleuve "beautiful river." Buffalo wings finger food so called because the recipe was invented in Buffalo (1964, at Frank & Teressa's Anchor Bar on Main Street).
- buffalo (v.)
- "alarm, overawe," 1900, from buffalo (n.). Probably from the animals' tendency to mass panic. Related: Buffaloed; buffaloing.
权威例句
- 1. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains.
- 北美大平原上曾有过7,000万头野牛。
- 2. A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.
- 一群秃鹫蹲伏在一具野牛的尸体上。
- 3. The festival commemorates the slaying of the demon buffalo.
- 那个节日是为了纪念杀死魔牛。
- 4. You can see the fresh buffalo dung on the country road.
- 你可以在乡间小路上看到刚屙下不久的水牛粪.
- 5. Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's.
- 亚洲水牛比美国水牛温顺些.
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