单词 | mascot |
释义 | mascot (once / 6379 pages) n A mascot is an animal or character that represents a group. If your high school soccer team is called "the weasels," it means that a weasel must be your school's mascot. Some mascots supposedly bring luck to an organization or club, and others are used as marketing for a team or brand. Smokey the Bear is the mascot of the U.S. Forest Service and stars in commercials urging the public to help prevent forest fires. Tony the Tiger is also a mascot of sorts, for Frosted Flakes cereal. Sports team mascots actually appear at games and matches, dancing around between innings and high-fiving little kids in the stands. WORD FAMILYmascot: mascots USAGE EXAMPLESWaterfront dining may one day be as common as steakhouses, those hidebound concepts that outsiders consider the mascots of D.C. dining. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Perhaps the best illustration of this tension is Pepe the Frog, the anti-Semitic cartoon mascot of “hipster Nazi” white nationalism. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) According to several national newspapers, he then suggested there might be consequences for the mascot. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) n a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure Hyper being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
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