Houyhnhnm

n. 有人类理性的马(<<格列佛游记>>中人物)

发音

其它 /huˈɪn.əm/

词形变化

Houyhnhnms 复数 Houyhnhnms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.

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词源

Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.

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