prehensile

常見(jiàn)例句

Long and slightly prehensile, but more like the tail of a panther than a monkey.
它們有尾巴。尾巴是細(xì)長(zhǎng)而且可纏繞的，但比起猴子那更像是獵豹的尾巴。
Only the kinkajou's tail is prehensile, like a monkey's, and only the kinkajou has been a pet for Paris Hilton.
二者僅有的不同點(diǎn)在于蜜熊的尾巴像猴子一樣可以用來(lái)抓握，而且還曾被帕里斯·希爾頓拿來(lái)當(dāng)寵物養(yǎng)。
IT IS said that when the good burghers of Amsterdam were first presented with a rhinoceros—armoured, horned, three-toed, with a prehensile lip—spectators shook their heads in disbelief.
據(jù)說(shuō)，當(dāng)善良的阿姆斯特丹市民第一次看到犀牛的時(shí)候——皮厚如甲、頭上長(zhǎng)角、三個(gè)腳趾，還有它那能卷握東西的嘴唇——都搖頭不信。

In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.
就像對(duì)人類(lèi)進(jìn)化至關(guān)重要的大拇指，經(jīng)歷了一場(chǎng)大地震后，如果所有有這種拇指的人都消失了,那么人類(lèi)就很可能永遠(yuǎn)不能進(jìn)化。
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In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
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This life in the glittering eye of the prehensile raccoon was what I wanted, and never had I felt so absolutely secure, as if the several phantom images of myself had resolved into the final form of who I was—clearly and firmly the Howard Wakefield I was meant to be.
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