flamingo
英 [fl?'m??g??]
美
- n. [鳥] 火烈鳥
暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?flamingoes;?flamingos;
中文詞源
flamingo 弗拉門科舞（一種節奏明快的西班牙舞蹈）
來自西班牙語。一種觀點認為來自Fleming, 民族名，民族舞蹈?；騺碜詅lame, 燃燒，炫麗，形容這種舞蹈的歡快。
flamingo 火烈鳥來自flame, 燃燒，炫麗。因這種鳥火紅的翅膀而得名。
英文詞源
- flamingo
- flamingo: [16] Flamingos get their name from their reddish-pink plumage, which earned them the epithet ‘fire-bird’. This was expressed in Proven?al (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 Proven?al flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
雙語例句
- 1. We met at a bar called the Flamingo.
- 我們在一家名為“火烈鳥”的酒吧相遇。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. This is the only species of flamingo in the region, easily recognized by its pink plumage.
- 這是那個地區唯一一種火烈鳥, 很容易憑粉紅色的羽毛辨認出來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche!
- 但即使這樣,佛萊明戈的經理都對我們的布蘭奇夫人印象深刻!
來自電影對白
- 4. Didn't you stay at a hotel called the Flamingo?
- 你難道沒有在佛萊明戈旅館待過?
來自電影對白
- 5. In my family, I am a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.
- 在我家里, 我是一群鴿子中的紅鶴.
來自電影對白