| 词汇 | zebra |
| 释义 | zebra noun[ C ] uk /ˈzeb.rə//ˈziː.brə/ us /ˈziː.brə/pluralzebras or zebra B2 an African wild animal that looks like a horse, with black or brown and white lines on its body（产于非洲的）斑马 Danger Dai/500px/GettyImages Horses & similar animals Arab Arabian beast beast of burdenidiom bronco chestnut donkey equine filly gelding hoof horse-drawn hunter palomino stallion steed thoroughbred trotter working horse yearling A zebra baby can walk about 15 minutes after it’s born. Although scientists don’t yet know the exact reason for the pattern, one theory is that when many zebras run together in a group, they make a pattern which is visually confusing. Another theory suggests that zebra stripes are actually very effective in hiding the animal in long grass because lions are in fact colorblind! But baby zebras can run and stay near their mother and the other adult zebras. It looks like a kind of horse or zebra, but it’s not related to either of them. Lions love to eat baby zebras. So, a zebra’s stripes help it to survive. This makes it difficult for predators, such as lions, to identify one zebra to attack. Zebras have black and white stripes. zebra | American Dictionaryzebra noun[ C ] us/ˈzi·brə/ an African wild animal that looks like a horse but has black and white or brown and white lines on its body Examples of zebrazebra For example, the word zebra is quite low frequency. As car ownership grew, it was clear that the zebra crossing could not cope with congested urban traffic. The younger children had some difficulty with colour-based compounds, such as zebra-shells. While the hunting grounds differ between these groups, the targeted species are the same; wildebeest is the major species, followed by gazelle, zebra, and topi. Finally, children produced utterances such as zebra-shells only for objects that did in fact have a notable resemblance. On naming a giraffe as a zebra : picture naming errors across different categories. The reported species are wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, topi, and impala. For example, no zebra appears in the picture of zebra-shells. The children had to look at the stripes and recall that some animal had stripes like that, and that it was called a zebra. The analogy referenced in the introduction was that of a child who hears and maps the word ' zebra ' to the striped animal in the zoo. Interestingly, a zebra was identified as intermediate host for the cattle strain. Other wildlife found are the wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, sitatunga, crocodile and hippopotamus. They could represent any one of a number of antelope species, zebra, wild dog or jackal : it is hard to judge. Obviously, this functionalist explanation is not satisfactor y as the final word as to why a zebra has its stripes. Metaphorically, these items can be labelled zebra-shells or carrot-crayon. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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