lizard

英 ['l?z?d] 美['l?z?d]

TEM4低頻詞暢通詞匯爬行兩棲

復(fù)數(shù):?lizards;

蜥蜴（四腳蛇）---- lizard ---- 立蛇兒

lizard 蜥蜴

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)lacertus,蜥蜴，可能來(lái)自PIE*leq,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同leg.

lizard: lizard: [14] Lizard goes back to Latin lacertus or lacerta, words of unknown origin. It reached English via Old French lesard. The Latin word was used for ‘muscle’ as well as ‘lizard’, perhaps because the ripple of a muscle beneath the skin reminded people of a lizard’s movement (an exactly parallel development links mouse and muscle). And in heavily disguised form, owing to a detour via Arabic, alligator is the same word.
=> alligator
lizard (n.): "an animal resembling a serpent, with legs added to it" [Johnson], late 14c., lusarde, from Anglo-French lusard, Old French laisarde "lizard" (Modern French lézard), from Latin lacertus (fem. lacerta) "lizard," of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE root *leq- "to bend, twist" [Klein].

1. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.: 蛇蜥其實(shí)不是蛇，而是無(wú)腳的蜥蜴。

3. But, of the vertebrates, unpredictable Nature selected only snakes ( and one lizard ).: 但是, 在脊椎動(dòng)物中, 神秘莫測(cè)的大自然只選擇了蛇 ( 和一種蜥蜴 ).

4. Confident in its camouflage, being the same colour as the rocks, the lizard stands still when it feels danger.: 由于和巖石顏色一樣，蜥蜴對(duì)自己的保護(hù)色充滿信心；遇到危險(xiǎn)時(shí)，它便一動(dòng)不動(dòng)。

5. In the lizard, a muscular septum partially divides the ventricle.: 在蟲(chóng)蜴中, 肌肉質(zhì)的隔膜把心室部分地隔開(kāi).