| 单词 | hippo hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmashippo hunting C1. General attributive and objective, as hippo enclosure, hippo hunting, hippo meat, etc. ΚΠ 1854 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 21 July 1/1 (advt.) Mine Materials..1 Butt and 1 Hippo Hide of Leather. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia xv. 396 These men arrived with the long ropes that form a portion of the outfit for hippo hunting. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 107 They had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the wilderness stink in my nostrils. 1936 Times of India 11 Jan. 23/4 Hippo Ivory is whiter than elephant ivory and there is little or no grain. 1996 Guardian 13 Aug. 10/7 Warsaw zoo..would like a donor to help enlarge its cramped hippo enclosure. 2010 J. Balcombe Second Nature x. 168 A recent field survey found that hippo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declined more than 95 percent. < as lemmas |
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