英语词源
- grampus (n.)
- a word applied to killer whales and other large, dolphin-like creatures, 1590s, earlier graundepose (1520s), altered (by influence of grand) from Middle English graspeys (late 13c.), from Anglo-French grampais, from Old French graspois, craspois "whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal," from Medieval Latin craspicis, literally "great fish" or "fat fish," from Latin crassus "thick" + piscis "fish" (see fish (n.)). For specifics of usage in English, see OED.
权威例句
- 1. The stairs made him puff like a grampus.
- 爬楼梯爬得他气喘如牛.
- 2. A cetacean ( Grampus griseus ) related to and resembling the dolphins but lacking a beaklike snout.
- 灰海豚,逆戟鲸一种与海豚有亲缘关系并形似海豚的鲸类动物 ( 灰海豚灰海豚属 ),但缺少喙状口鼻部.