cannibal是什么意思

双语例句

(1)The accuracy of many descriptions of cannibals is highly questionable.

很多关于食人族描述的准确性都非常值得怀疑。

(2)Some cannibals eat their mates after mating.

一些吃同类的动物会在交配过后将其配偶吃掉。

(3)The cannibals make up a tiny percentage of the natural world.

吃同类的动物只占自然界的一小部分。

(4)Here is a tribe of cannibals.

这里有一个食人部落

(5)Only one of them survived the ordeal of CANNIBAL.

只有一人幸存折磨得食。

(6)The Cannibal won't get us without his seven - mile shoes.

食人者没有他的七里的鞋子将抓不到我们。

(7)Then she went to the king and accused her of being a cannibal.

然后，她到国王面前去诬告王后，说她是吃人的妖怪。

(8)Packer was an American gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

帕克是一名美国金矿勘探者及食人犯。

(9)New fossil evidence supports that Tyrannosaurus rex was a cannibal.

新发现的化石证明霸王龙残食同类

同义词

n. 食人者；吃同类的动物

adj. 食同类的；吃人肉的；凶残的

同根词

词根 cannibal

(1)cannibalistic adj. 同类相食的，自相残杀的；食人肉的

(2)cannibalism n. 食人；嗜食同类；残忍的行为

(3)cannibalize vi. 调拨人员；拆用配件；同类相食vt. 拆用…的配件；调拨…的人员

释义

n.

a person who eats the flesh of other human beings

食人者

[as modifier]cannibal tribes.

食人者的部落。

an animal that feeds on flesh of its own species

同类相食的动物，吃同类的动物。

词源

"mid 16th cent.: from Spanish Canibales （plural）， variant （recorded by Columbus） of Caribes, the name of a West Indian people reputed to eat humans （see CARIB）．"