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A big spotted cat lying along a tree branch in Africa or South Asia. Yellow fur, black rosettes — a pattern it was born with and will wear all its life.
一隻趴在樹枝上的大型貓科動物,黃底黑斑,尾巴垂下來。牠身上那身斑點是天生的、洗不掉也換不掉——這一點正好是第二個意思…更多收起
一隻趴在樹枝上的大型貓科動物,黃底黑斑,尾巴垂下來。牠身上那身斑點是天生的、洗不掉也換不掉——這一點正好是第二個意思的來源,所以記 leopard 時最好連「斑點」一起記進去。原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Leopardname
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A surname.
leopardnoun/ˈlɛp.əd/
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A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
- The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
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A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
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A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
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A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
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A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesA lion passant guardant.
- Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard? There is a theory that the lion and leopard were the same thing, and that they were named entirely depending on their attitude—thus if the animal was passant guardant it was a leopard, but when rampant it was a lion. Nowadays a leopard is the genuine spotted article and quite unmistakeable. Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means.
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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。