chameleon是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Chameleons change their skin color to adapt to the environment.

变色龙为了适应环境会变换皮肤颜色。

(2)It is becoming a trend to raise Meller's chameleons as pets.

饲养梅勒斯蜥蜴已经成为了一种潮流。

(3)The chameleon is very quick on the draw.

这个见风使舵的人临机应变能力很强。

(4)A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.

变色龙是一种蜥蜴 其皮肤会改变颜色以匹配其周围的颜色

(5)The chameleon can take on the colours of its background.

变色龙可以变成周围环境的颜色。

(6)Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background.

他像变色龙一样，可以不引人注意地融入背景之中。

(7)What color is the chameleon placed on the mirror?

放在镜子上的变色龙是什么颜色的？

(8)The chameleon on the mirror is a completely open system.

镜子上的变色龙是一个完全展开的躯体。

(9)Both of us are biologists, so we swerved to talk about the elusive chameleon.

我俩都是生物学家，便转而去讨论这难以捉摸的变色龙。

同义词

n. 变色龙；善变的人；轻浮的人

释义

n.

a small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to change colour

变色蜥蜴，变色龙。

(亦作American chameleon)N. Amer. an anole

〈北美〉 　　避役，安乐蜥，美洲变色蜥蜴。

figurative a changeable or inconstant person

〈喻〉 　　多变的人；反复无常的人。

词源

"Middle English： via Latin chamaeleon from Greek khamaileōn, from khamai ‘on the ground' ＋ leōn ‘lion’."