kangaroo是什么意思_kangaroo怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

kangaroo: kangaroo: [18] The first English speakers to refer in writing to the kangaroo were Captain Cook and the botanist Joseph Banks, who both mentioned it in 1770 in the journals they kept of their visit to Australia (Banks, for instance, referred to killing ‘kangaru’). This was their interpretation of ganjurru, the name for a large black or grey type of kangaroo in the Guugu Yimidhirr language of New South Wales.

English quickly generalized the term to any sort of kangaroo, although it caused some confusion among speakers of other Australian Aboriginal languages, who were not familiar with it: speakers of the Baagandji language, for instance, used it to refer to the horse (which had just been introduced into Australia). There is no truth whatsoever in the story that the Aboriginal word was a reply to the English question ‘What’s that?’, and meant ‘I don’t understand’.

The element -roo was used in the 19th century to produce jackeroo, which denoted ‘a new immigrant in Australia’, and is first recorded as an independent abbreviation of kangaroo in the first decade of the 20th century. The term kangaroo court ‘unofficial court’, which dates from the 1850s, is an allusion to the court’s irregular proceedings, which supposedly resemble the jumps of a kangaroo.
kangaroo (n.): 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aborigine word from northeast Queensland, Australia, usually said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo."
In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean "kangaroo" in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/. [Dixon]
Kangaroo court is American English, first recorded 1850 in a Southwestern context (also mustang court), from notion of proceeding by leaps.

词态变化

复数 kangaroos;
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权威造句

1. Australia is the province of the kangaroo.: 澳大利亚是袋鼠生长活动的地区.

2. The kangaroo is a native of Australia.: 袋鼠是产于澳洲的动物.

3. A kangaroo carries its young in a pouch.: 大袋鼠以肚袋装小袋鼠.

4. The kangaroo , with its long, muscular hind legs, is a marvel of fitness.: 大袋鼠长有很强健的后腿, 可谓奇特健壮.

5. In five minutes, I went from Mayor Barclay to Captain Kangaroo!: 就5分钟我从巴克利市长变成袋鼠队长!

近反义词

kangaroo rat 鼠菐[...

kangaroo court 私设之法庭

kangaroo closure 限制议事法

相似短语

kangaroo hare phr. 兔袋鼠

giant kangaroo phr. 大袋鼠

jerboa kangaroo phr. 草原袋鼠属

kangaroo bear phr. 树袋熊，考拉（澳大利亚的国宝，也是澳大利亚奇特的珍贵原始树栖动物）

kangaroo court n. 【美】【口】袋鼠法庭，私设之法庭，非法法庭（指非法的或不按法律程序的非正规法庭；也指囚犯在狱中举行的摸拟法庭）

rock kangaroo phr. 岩间袋鼠

kangaroo apple phr. 澳洲茄

kangaroo ligature 【医】袋鼠腱结扎线

kangaroo rat 鼠类(北美产)

kangaroo leather 袋鼠革

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. (澳大利亚土著语，意思是“不知道”)袋鼠。
2. 库克船长第一次见到袋鼠时向一个澳洲土著具名询问它的名字，对方答道“kangaroo”，意思是“我不知道”或“我听不懂你的话”，库克船长雀以为这就是当地人对该动物的叫法。

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