penguin

n. 企鹅；空军地勤人员

n.

企鹅；

变形

复数：penguins

双语释义

[C]企鹅 a quite large black and white sea-bird that lives in the Antarctic

英英释义

penguin[ 'peŋɡwin ]

n.short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

词组短语

king penguin 国王企鹅；帝企鹅（等于Aptenodytes patagonicus）

emperor penguin n. 皇企鹅

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The penguin is a flightless bird.
企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。

The birth of a baby penguin in the zoo was widely reported.
动物园里小企鹅的出生受到了广泛的报道。

权威例句

penguin

penguin: [16] Penguin is one of the celebrated mystery words of English etymology. It first appears towards the end of the 16th century (referring to the ‘great auk’ as well as to the ‘penguin’) in accounts of voyages to the southern oceans, but no one has ever ascertained where it came from. A narrative of 1582 noted ‘The countrymen call them Penguins (which seemeth to be a Welsh name)’, and in 1613 John Selden speculated that the name came from Welsh pen gwyn ‘white head’.Etymologists since have not been able to come up with a better guess than this, but it is at odds with the fact that the great auk had a mainly black head, and so do penguins. The earliest known reference to the word (from 1578) mentions the birds being found on an ‘island named Penguin’, off Newfoundland, so it could be that it was originally the name of the island (perhaps ‘white (i.e. snow-covered) headland’) rather than of the bird.However, a further objection to this theory is that a combination based on Welsh pen gwyn would have produced penwyn, not penguin.

penguin (n.)

1570s, originally used of the great auk of Newfoundland (now extinct), shift in meaning to the Antarctic bird (which looks something like it, found by Drake in Magellan's Straits in 1578) is from 1580s. Of unknown origin, though often asserted to be from Welsh pen "head" (see pen-) + gwyn "white" (see Gwendolyn), but Barnhart says the proposed formation is not proper Welsh. The great auk had a large white patch between its bill and eye. The French and Breton versions of the word ultimately are from English.

1. His mother had not returned yet and little penguin was staring with his mouse open .

小企鹅的妈妈还没回来，他在张嘴而望。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. hoping to make the penguin parents feel better.

希望能让企鹅爸妈好过一点。

-- 来源 -- 常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年1月号 - The Penguin Show

3. the largest penguin; an Antarctic penguin.

最大的企鹅；一种南极企鹅。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

4. small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand.

产于福克兰群岛和新西兰的小企鹅。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. Many scientist blame global warming for the decrease in penguin populations.

很多科学家把企鹅数量减少的原因怪罪为地球变暖。

-- 来源 -- 英语听读练30’（初三） - Passage 9 Penguins Dying

6. small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call.

南美和南非叫声似驴叫的小企鹅。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

7. A penguin, a penguin.

企鹅，企鹅，

-- 来源 -- 小学英语(四年级下学期适用) - Unit 5 A Visit to the Sea World Lesson one

8. emperor penguin

皇企鹅

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

9. His career began in the late 1970s at Penguin Books.

20世纪70年代后期，他从企鹅出版社起步。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10. Incapable of of certain birds, such as the penguin.

鸟不会飞的不能飞行的。用于指企鹅等某类鸟

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考