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A tyrannosaurus is a very large meat-eating dinosaur: huge head, teeth like knives, a thick tail, powerful back legs, and tiny front arms. It walked the earth about 68 to 66 million years ago and is probably the most famous dinosaur in the world, the one every child can draw.
A tyrannosaurus暴龍 is a very large meat-eating dinosaur是一種非常大型的肉食恐龍 huge head巨大的頭 teeth like knives像刀子一樣的牙齒 a thick tail粗壯的尾巴 powerful back legs強而有力的後腿 and famously tiny front arms還有出了名的小小前肢 It它 walked the earth about 68 to 66 million years ago大約在六千八百萬到六千六百萬年前生活在地球上 and is probably the most famous dinosaur in the world大概是全世界最有名的恐龍 the one every child can draw每個小孩都會畫的那一種
The full scientific name is Tyrannosaurus rex — 'rex' is Latin for 'king' — and in everyday speech people almost always say 'T. rex' instead of the long form. When you do write the scientific name it takes a capital T and (Tyrannosaurus rex); when you use it as an ordinary English noun, small letters are fine ('a tyrannosaurus').
The full scientific name is Tyrannosaurus rex完整的學名是 Tyrannosaurus rex 'rex' is Latin for 'king'「rex」在拉丁文裡是「王」的意思 and in everyday speech people almost always say 'T. rex'而在日常說話裡，大家幾乎都說「T. rex」 instead of the long form而不是完整的長名稱 When you do write the scientific name當你要寫學名的時候 it takes a capital T and italics (Tyrannosaurus rex)開頭T要大寫，還要用斜體（Tyrannosaurus rex） when you use it as an ordinary English noun當你把它當一般英文名詞用時 small letters are fine ('a tyrannosaurus')小寫就可以了（例如「a tyrannosaurus」）
The plural is usually 'tyrannosauruses'; some people write 'tyrannosauri' to sound Latin, but that is playful rather than correct. There is also the shorter form 'tyrannosaur', which covers the whole family of related dinosaurs, not just this one animal.
The plural is usually 'tyrannosauruses'複數通常寫成「tyrannosauruses」 some people write 'tyrannosauri' to sound Latin有些人會寫「tyrannosauri」，聽起來比較像拉丁文 but that is playful rather than correct但那只是好玩，不算是正確的寫法 There is also the shorter form 'tyrannosaur'還有比較短的形式「tyrannosaur」 which covers the whole family of related dinosaurs它涵蓋整個相關恐龍家族 not just this one animal而不只是這一種動物
組成Two Greek pieces joined: τύραννος (túrannos) 'tyrant, absolute ruler' + σαῦρος (saûros) 'lizard' — so, 'tyrant lizard'. The scientist who named it in 1905 was saying that this animal ruled over everything else alive at the time.
同家族的字
- dinosaurSame -saur from Greek saûros 'lizard'; deinos means 'terrible', so 'terrible lizard'.
- brontosaurusAlso -saurus, 'thunder lizard'.
- tyrantThe same Greek túrannos that gives the first half of the name.
原始詞典資料1 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。
tyrannosaurusnoun/tɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs/
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Any large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.
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。