音标:['elifәnt] ; 柯林斯词典等级:2 级;
n. 象
n. five-toed pachyderm
n. the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
词型变化:名词复数形式 : elephants
考试类型:[中考/高考/四级/六级/考研]
词性分布:
名词100%

elephant的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The elephant smashed through the trees.大象在树林中横冲直撞。
  2. He said he could eat an elephant to appease his hunger.他说他吃光一头大象才能充饥。
  3. Jan's factory is an absolute white elephant.简的那个工厂成了一个大包袱。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. An elephant's nose is extraordinarily long!象的鼻子特别得长!
  2. The first blind man happened to place his hand on the elephant's side.第一个盲人碰巧把手摸到大象的肚子上。
  3. A specific attribute of the elephant is its long trunk.大象的一个特有的特征是它的长鼻子。
  4. Elephants are found in Africa and in Asia.在非洲和亚洲能看到象。
  5. Once there were elephants in these regions.过去这一带曾经有象。
  6. Wild elephants no longer exist in Europe.欧洲不再有野象生存了。
  7. Elephants never forget.大象记性很好。
  8. The elephant is huge.这头象很大。
  9. He is seated on an elephant.他坐在象背上。
  10. She has a memory like an elephant's.她的记忆力极好。
  11. In Thailand and India, a white elephant is regarded as a sacred animal.在泰国和印度,白象被视为神圣的动物。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • kill elephant捕杀大象
  • protect elephant保护大象
  • rain elephants and whales下倾盆大雨
  • see the elephant〈美俚〉见世面,开眼界,获得经验
形容词+~
  • African elephant非洲象
  • female elephant雌象
  • male elephant雄象
  • rogue elephant野象
  • white elephant白象,无用而累赘的东西
  • wild elephant野象
  • young elephant幼象
名词+~
  • trick elephant会演把戏的象
介词+~
  • a herd of elephants一群象
【反义词】

The biggest and strongest animal on land is the elephant. The largest and heaviest animal in the sea is the whale. It's also the biggest eater in the world. It eats a ton of food a day. It looks like

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(277) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄初级美国英语

Oh, baby elephant you are such a hoot. You are so darn wrinkly and so darn cute whether clowning with your bestest bud,or trying to climb out of the mud, or wrestling on a dry lake bed, or playing with stuff on top of your head. You show us humans we

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Visitors to the California city of San Diego can enter a world of elephants, jaguars, camels and other modern animals whose distant cousins lived in North America. The San Diego Zoo's Elephant Odyssey is a new exhibit that shows the links between an

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(六月)

I MET HER NEAR the end of September. It had been raining that day from morning to nightthe kind of soft, monotonous, misty rain that often falls at that time of year, washing away bit by bit the memories of summer burned into the earth. Coursing down

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

The Elephant Vanishes WHEN THE ELEPHANT disappeared from our towns elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at 6:13. I went to the kitchen, made coffee and toast, turned on the radio, spread the pa

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

An elephant was once appointed ruler of the forest.Now,it is well known that the race of elephants is endowed with great intelligence;but every family has its unworthy scion.Our Governor was as stout as the rest of his race are,but as fooli

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语