- 1兩棲類、兩棲動物（青蛙、蠑螈那一類）；形容詞 amphibious 在軍事上就是「兩棲」，例如兩棲登陸。
An animal that lives part of its life in water and part on land — frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. Most start as eggs in water, hatch as babies that breathe like fish (a baby frog is a ), then grow legs and lungs and come out onto land. Their skin is thin and wet, and they drink and even breathe a little through it, which is why they must stay near water and why pollution hurts them so quickly; scientists watch amphibians as a warning sign for a sick environment. The adjective is 'amphibious'. That adjective travels further than the animal: an 'amphibious vehicle' can drive on land and float on water, and an 'amphibious landing' is soldiers coming ashore from ships. Careful — a turtle is a reptile, not an amphibian, and so is a crocodile, even though they swim. The test is not 'does it swim' but 'does it have that two-stage life with thin wet skin'.
組成From Greek: amphi- 'both, on both sides' + bios 'life' — so, 'both-lives', an animal with two lives, one in water and one on land. The -an ending turns it into a name for a member of that group.
同家族的字
- amphitheatresame amphi- 'on both sides' — seats going all the way round
- biologysame Greek bios 'life' — the study of living things
- antibioticalso bios 'life' — a medicine that works against living germs
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amphibianadj/æmˈfɪbɪən/
- 1
Of or relating to the class Amphibia.
- 2
Capable of operating on both land and water; amphibious.
- 3
obsoleteHaving two natures.
amphibiannoun/æmˈfɪbɪən/
- 1
An animal of the Amphibia; any vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, typically living both on land and in water.
- 2
A vehicle which can operate on both land and water.
- 3
A person with two distinct characters, qualities or identities.
- The prime exemplar of such a cast of mind must be Johann Ladislas Pyrker, a definite amphibian and ‘Austro-Hungarian’ in his literary and in his public life. The son of another estate bailiff in Transdanubia, Pyrker became successively a Hungarian official, an Austrian monk and at length a fairly worldly abbot at Lilienfeld, then a bishop in Hungary, patriarch of Venice, and archbishop in Hungary again.
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