gazelle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
    — “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
动词 v.
  1. To leap like a gazelle. figuratively,intransitive
    — And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazelling again.
  2. To go fast; to speed; to rush. figuratively,intransitive
    — Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]

词形变化

gazelles plural gazelle plural gazel alternative,dated gazelles present,singular,third-person gazelling participle,present gazelled participle,past gazelled past gazel alternative,dated

词源

词源 1
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
词源 2
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
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