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].
雙語例句
1. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.
蛇蜥其實(shí)不是蛇，而是無腳的蜥蜴。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The lizard darted out its tongue at the insect.
蜥蜴伸出舌頭去吃小昆蟲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. But, of the vertebrates, unpredictable Nature selected only snakes ( and one lizard ).
但是, 在脊椎動(dòng)物中, 神秘莫測的大自然只選擇了蛇 ( 和一種蜥蜴 ).
來自《用法詞典》
4. Confident in its camouflage, being the same colour as the rocks, the lizard stands still when it feels danger.