flamingo
英 [flə'mɪŋgəʊ]
美
- n. [鸟] 火烈鸟
词态变化
复数: flamingoes; flamingos;
中文词源
flamingo 弗拉门科舞（一种节奏明快的西班牙舞蹈）
来自西班牙语。一种观点认为来自Fleming, 民族名，民族舞蹈。或来自flame, 燃烧，炫丽，形容这种舞蹈的欢快。
flamingo 火烈鸟来自flame, 燃烧，炫丽。因这种鸟火红的翅膀而得名。
英文词源
- flamingo
- flamingo: [16] Flamingos get their name from their reddish-pink plumage, which earned them the epithet ‘fire-bird’. This was expressed in Provençal (the language of southern French coastal areas, where flamingos abound) as flamenc, a compound formed from flama ‘flame’ (a descendant of Latin flamma) and the Germanic suffix -ing ‘belonging to’. English acquired the word via Portuguese flamengo. (It has, incidentally, no etymological connection with flamenco ‘Spanish dance’ [19], which comes from the Spanish word for ‘Flemish’: the people of Flanders seem to have had a reputation in the Middle Ages for bright, flamboyant dress, and hence ‘Flemish’ in Spanish became synonymous with ‘gipsy-like’.)
=> flame - flamingo (n.)
- long-legged, long-necked brightly colored pink bird of the tropical Americas, 1560s, from Portuguese flamengo, Spanish flamengo, literally "flame-colored" (compare Greek phoinikopteros "flamingo," literally "red-feathered"), from Provençal flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
双语例句
- 1. We met at a bar called the Flamingo.
- 我们在一家名为“火烈鸟”的酒吧相遇。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. This is the only species of flamingo in the region, easily recognized by its pink plumage.
- 这是那个地区唯一一种火烈鸟, 很容易凭粉红色的羽毛辨认出来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche!
- 但即使这样,佛莱明戈的经理都对我们的布兰奇夫人印象深刻!
来自电影对白
- 4. Didn't you stay at a hotel called the Flamingo?
- 你难道没有在佛莱明戈旅馆待过?
来自电影对白
- 5. In my family, I am a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.
- 在我家里, 我是一群鸽子中的红鹤.
来自电影对白