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词汇 centaur
释义 centaur
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsen.tɔːr/ us /ˈsen.tɔːr/
a creature in ancient Greek stories that has a human's upper body and the lower body and legs of a horse(古希腊神话中的)半人半马怪物
 
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Examples from literature

For instance, the fable of the centaur was invented to show, by the union of man and horse, the swiftness of human life. 
She imagined a determined Hungarian prairie, over which dashed disordered centaurs brandishing clubs, driving before them a band of satyrs and leaping fauns. 
The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast. 
The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs. 

Examples of centaur


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A teaching hospital is in fact like a centaur; it cannot be adequately fed on a diet which consists of nothing but oats.
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A teaching hospital is a beast a little like a centaur.
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It is a sham or a centaur, but, whatever it is, it is not coherent and satisfactory.
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Pictorially, it is a kind of centaur.
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During a centaur show, the king was badly injured and left partially paralyzed and bed-ridden.
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The school's colors are blue and silver, and the mascot is the centaur.
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Centaurs have short dynamical lives due to strong interactions with the giant planets.
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Chiron is also a centaur; other centaurs are being observed for signs of a cometary coma.
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Wirance can't stop it and the centaur warriors can't hurt it.
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Centaur design philosophy was always centered around sufficient performance for tasks that its target market demands.
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When a fight breaks out, the centaurs seize the chance to cause some more damage.
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As she looks into the dark water, a centaur appears whose human and animal parts supposedly symbolize the duality of spirit and body.
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The centaur goes out to rescue the mermaid and eventually finds her in the grasp of a giant squid.
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He portrayed shortly a centaur at a medical clinic.
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It was not long before the sacred scent reached the other centaurs.
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