caribou: [17] Caribou is the name of a close North American relative of the reindeer, and it refers literally to the way in which the animal scratches at the snow with its hooves to find the grass, moss, etc that it eats. It comes from Mi’kmaq galipu (Mi’kmaq is an Algonquian language of eastern Canada), meaning ‘snowshoveller’, which in Canadian French became caribou.
caribou (n.)
also cariboo, 1660s, from Canadian French caribou, from Micmac (Algonquian) kaleboo or a related Algonquian name, literally "pawer, scratcher," from its kicking snow aside to feed on moss and grass.
雙語例句
1. Afar off he heard the squawking of caribou calves.
他聽到遠處有一群小馴鹿尖叫的聲音.
來自英漢文學 - 熱愛生命
2. The Eskimos played soccer on ice and used balls filled with caribou hair and grass.
愛斯基摩人在冰上踢球,他們用的是馴鹿的毛發和草填充成的球.
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3. A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals, tantalizingly within rifle range.
一群馴鹿走了過去, 大約有二十多頭, 都呆在可望而不可即的來福槍的射程以內.
來自英漢文學 - 熱愛生命
4. After off he heard the squawking of caribou calves.
他聽見遠處傳來小馴鹿的尖叫聲.
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5. WOLVES dine on moose and caribou, creatures favoured by Alaska's human hunters.