网络释义专业释义英英释义
prehensile organ 抓握器官
PREHENSILE-TAILED PORCUPINE 玻利维亚卷尾豪猪
interchangeable prehensile tool 互换式抓握装置
prehensile-tailed hutia 巧尾硬毛鼠
prehensile [ pri'hensail ]
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adj.
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adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
"a monkey's prehensile tail"
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having a keen intellect
"poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
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immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
"prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
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adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
prehensile /prɪˈhɛnsaɪl/
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ADJ adapted for grasping, esp by wrapping around a support (尤指通过缠绕住一支撑物)适于抓住的
例：a prehensile tail
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Or to bring it a little bit closer to home, does it mean that the purpose of the prehensile thumb is for grasping?
或者，更详细地说，它是不是意味着,能握住东西的拇指就是为了抓东西而存在的？
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Now in the case of language, we have to suppose as a matter of fact that language, as it were, appeared among us in the same way that the prehensile thumb did.
现在拿语言来说，我们必须假设，实际上，语言本身，就像能握住东西的拇指一样出现在我们身边。
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A monkey has a prehensile tail.
猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴。
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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.
就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。
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