sea horse
參見：seahorse
英語
[编辑]
其他形式
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]繼承自中古英語 sehors (“海象”)，等價於 sea + horse。可能仿譯自法語棄用詞 cheval de mer，或直接來自晚期拉丁語 caballus marinus。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]sea horse (複數 sea horses)
- 海馬（Hippocampus）
- (棄用) 海象
- 近義詞：walrus
- 1789，Olaudah Equiano，第9章，收錄於 The Interesting Narrative，第I卷：
- One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.
- 一天早上，我们在船周围发现了大量的海象，它们发出的嘶鸣声和其他马的叫声一模一样。
- (神話) hippocampus (“馬頭魚尾怪”)之同義詞
- 2013, Richard Daniel De Puma, Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 107:
- Instead, it seems to be a unique case that ends in the tail of a hippocamp or seahorse, although with one fin now missing. Ultimately, the form might have been inspired by bent-leg vases produced in Greece.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- (集郵) 乔治五世国王统治期间发行的一系列高价值英国邮票之一，描绘了不列颠尼亚乘坐战车在波涛汹涌的大海中航行的场景
- (棄用) 河馬
- 近義詞：hippopotamus
- 1830, Georges Louis Le Clerc (Count de Buffon), The Natural History of Quadrupeds (page 331)
- As most authors mention the hippopotamus under the names of the sea-horse, or the sea-cow, he has sometimes been confounded with the latter, which inhabits only the northern seas.
- 1857，Journal of the Society of Arts，第5卷，72頁：
- The sea-horse teeth (so called) are the tusks of the hippopotamus.
- 所謂的“海馬”牙齒實際上是河馬的尖牙。
