| 释义 |
‖ reebok|ˈrɪəbɔk, ˈriː-|
Also 8 -bock, 9– rhe(e)boc, -bok, -buck, 20 ribbok.
[Du. reebok roebuck.]
A small South African antelope, Pelea capreola, with sharp horns.
1775Masson in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 270, I spent a whole day in search of plants, and hunting a sort of antelope called Ree Bock. 1790T. Bewick Hist. Quadrup. 77 The Ree-Bok is a gregarious animal. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 80/1 The Rheebok (Antilope capreolus). Ibid. II. 80/2 The rheeboks live in small families of five or six individuals. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. 22 Along the grassy meads Where the skipping reebok feeds. 1834A. Smith Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1939) I. 137 Saw the common rheebok. 1839W. C. Harris Wild Sports S. Afr. 384 Redunca Capreolus. The Rhee Buck. Rhee-bok of the Cape Colonists. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. i. 18 The rhooye-rheebok, or red rheebuck. 1862J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 10 Sept. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 23 Saw both oribi and rhebuck, the former very pretty animals. 1881F. C. Selous Wanderings S. Afr. 2, I..had managed to bag one bushbuck ram..and eight gray and red rhebucks. 1889H. A. Bryden Kloof & Kerroo xvi. 297 The Voal or Grey Rhebock..is..plentiful on most of the mountain ranges. 1910J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 There were droves of smaller game—rhebok and springbok and duikers. 1947H. C. Bosman Mafeking Road xii. 67 He remembered having had that same feeling once before when he had shot a ribbok. 1950Cape Argus 17 July 4/4 Two dainty rhebuck stood and gazed at us. 1953Cape Argus 25 Apr. 8/4 The animals include ribbok, grysbok,..and one blue wildebeest. 1958L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari v. 91 Barely fifty feet from me five rhee-buck got up from their warm beds behind a ledge of rock. 1959Encounter Sept. 53 These mountains of up⁓pointed spears Hold eland, oribi and rhebok. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vii. 124 ‘The skull is ribbok,’ he said, ‘and that's the tibia of a buffalo.’ |