From the word’s history
From Middle English cocodrill, from Old French cocodril, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek krokódeilos; later respelled after Latin.
經古法文來自拉丁文 crocodilus，源自古希臘文 κροκόδειλος。
You can picture the animal itself: a long, low, armoured body lying in a warm river, with a long mouth full of teeth. Everything else the word does is either a piece of that animal, or a shape that reminds people of it.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crocodilenoun詞源 1/ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/
- 1
Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.
- The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.
- Industrial and rural expansion is shrinking and destroying the Nile crocodile's natural habitat. The Nile crocodiles, in particular, have been a source of highly durable leather for a variety of products which can be crafted and manufactured.
- 2
A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
- Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
- 3
human-scienceslogicmathematicsA fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
- We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles, enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation[…]
- 4
greedy or corrupt person (especially a politician or any public official)
crocodileverb詞源 2/ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/
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slangTo speak another language than Esperanto at an Esperanto-language gathering.
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