porcupine: [14] The porcupine is etymologically a ‘spiny pig’. Its name was coined in Vulgar Latin as *porcospīnus from Latin porcus ‘pig’ (source of English pork) and spīnus ‘spine’. It came to English via Old French porc espin. It underwent all sorts of traumas (portpen, porpoynt, porpentine – the form used by Shakespeare: the ghost of Hamlet’s father speaks of the ‘quills upon the fretful porpentine’ – porkenpick, porpin, etc) before finally settling down in the 17th century to porcupine, and around 1700 the fanciful variant porcupig was coined. => pork, spine
porcupine (n.)
c. 1400, porke despyne, from Old French porc-espin (early 13c., Modern French porc-épic), literally "spiny pig," from Latin porcus "hog" + spina "thorn, spine" (see spine). The word had many forms in Middle English and early Modern English, including portepyn, porkpen, porkenpick, porpoynt, and Shakespeare's porpentine (in "Hamlet").
porcupine 英文释义
1. relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
porcupine 双语例句
1. A porcupine is covered with prickles.
箭猪身上长满了刺.
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2. A little porcupine made a house by the side of the river.
小刺猬在小河边上造了一幢小房子.
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3. One of the sharp hollow spines of a porcupine or hedgehog.
豪猪或刺猬身上硬而中空的保护刺.
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4. There is a philosophy parable, call philosophy of porcupine.
有一个哲学寓言, 叫豪猪的哲学.
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5. It is the Kookaburra ( Porcupine ) and Skunk Kingdoms that greet you today.
今天是笑翠鸟 ( 豪猪 ) 和臭鼬王国向你们问候.
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porcupine 实用场景例句
Long sharp stiff spine of a porcupine.
豪猪的长而硬的)刺.
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The Porcupine caribou herd grazes near Beaufort Lagoon in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
在位于阿拉斯加的北极国家野生动物保护区中,一群波丘派恩驯鹿正在波弗特盐水湖边吃草.
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A porcupine is covered with prickles.
箭猪身上长满了刺.
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A little porcupine made a house by the side of the river.
小刺猬在小河边上造了一幢小房子.
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There, a porcupine, wild boar, pig, stupid pig, Ukraine, pig eight quit of little piglets species.
有, 豪猪, 野猪, 蠢猪, 笨猪, 乌克兰小乳猪, 猪八戒等的种类.
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One of the sharp hollow spines of a porcupine or hedgehog.
豪猪或刺猬身上硬而中空的保护刺.
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There is a philosophy parable, call philosophy of porcupine.
有一个哲学寓言, 叫豪猪的哲学.
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A lonely porcupine likes to wander to the river alone and stare into the water expressionless.
一只孤独的刺猬常常独自来到河边散步.望着水草里自己的影子,默默的出神.
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The pectinate quills of the porcupine are barbed.
豪猪栉状的刺是会刺人的.
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It is the Kookaburra ( Porcupine ) and Skunk Kingdoms that greet you today.
今天是笑翠鸟 ( 豪猪 ) 和臭鼬王国向你们问候.
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The hunter seized a porcupine.
猎人捕获了一只豪猪.
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Oh my god! Porcupine and Fish has fallen in love!
上帝 啊,鱼和刺猬相爱了!
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Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
与豪猪有性关系是违法的.
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The porcupine is larger than a pig.
豪猪比家猪要大.
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Any of several spiny animals, such as the porcupine that are similar to the hedgehog.
