单词 | Ethiopian |
释义 | Ethiopian/iːθɪˈəʊpɪən /noun 1A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia, or a person of Ethiopian descent.Few Ethiopians dress in their native attire except on special occasions....
2 archaic A black person.In terms of the general contour of their bodies, they resemble monstrous men, gigantic in stature, black like Ethiopians in skin color, agile like serpents, ferocious like lions....
adjective 1Relating to Ethiopia or its people.During the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s, the UN squandered $75m on apartment blocks for its staff, while its failure to assemble transport vehicles left food rotting on the dockside....
2 Zoology Relating to or denoting a zoogeographical region comprising Africa south of the Sahara, together with the tropical part of the Arabian peninsula and (usually) Madagascar. Distinctive animals include the giraffes, hippopotamuses, aardvark, elephant shrews, tenrecs, and lemurs. Also called Afrotropical.There are three easy-to-see, endemic, large mammals: the mountain nyala, Ethiopian wolf and gelada baboon....
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