• n. 半人馬座；人首馬身的怪物

古希臘神話中人頭馬身神，其中以喀戎最為著名。詞源有爭(zhēng)議，可能來(lái)自于cent, 刺，見center. -taur, 牛，見Taurus，金牛座。

centaur (n.)

late 14c., from Latin centaurus, from Greek Kentauros, origin disputed. In early Greek literature they were a savage, horse-riding tribe from Thessaly; later they were monsters half horse, half man. The southern constellation of Centaurus is attested in English from 1550s but was known by that name to the Romans and known as a centaur to the Greeks. It has often been confused since classical times with Sagittarius.

1. His face reminded me somehow of a centaur.

他的臉使我想起半人半馬的怪物。

來(lái)自辭典例句

2. 'stentor or centaur ,'tis no matter, " answered Gerald, unruffled by his error.

" 不管它是什么,這沒關(guān)系, " 杰拉爾德回答說(shuō), 對(duì)自己的錯(cuò)誤毫不在意.

來(lái)自飄（部分）

3. The eighth and ninth missions had Centaur boosting the spacecraft into an 80, 000 - kilometer deep - space orbit.

第八次和第九次利用森托爾將飛船送人一個(gè)8萬(wàn)千米的深層太空軌道.

來(lái)自英漢非文學(xué) - 科學(xué)史

4. Sagittarius , the centaur, merges beast and man a unique creature.

人馬座, 希臘神話中的半人半馬,是獸與人結(jié)合而成的獨(dú)特生物.

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5. No wonder he had soon been hustled away to centaur school.

也難怪父母匆匆忙忙就把他送到了半人馬學(xué)校.

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