orangutan

orangutan 指红毛猩猩，一种生活在树上、长着 reddish-brown 长毛和长臂的大型猿类，主要分布于婆罗洲和苏门答腊。

💡 记忆钩子

把它记成“森林里的人”：它的名称本义就是“森林人”，因此指这种长臂、红褐色长毛、常在树上活动的猿类。

📝 学习建议

不要把 orangutan 误解成泛指所有猩猩；它特指红毛猩猩这一类动物。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 红毛猩猩

📖 指一种大型猿类，身上有蓬松的红褐色长毛，手臂很长，主要在树上活动，属于红毛猩猩属，原产于婆罗洲和苏门答腊。这个词可以按“森林人”的形象来记。

💡 常见搭配是“an orangutan”或“orangutans live in...”，例如介绍动物习性时使用。它是具体动物名称，前面说一只时通常要用冠词或其他限定词；不要把它当作不可数的动物类别名。

The orangutan reached for the fruit with its long arms.

那只红毛猩猩用长臂伸手去够水果。

Orangutans spend much of their time in trees.

红毛猩猩大部分时间都在树上活动。

orangutans plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

同义词集: orangutan orang orangutang pongo pygmaeus

🌳 词源

来自马来语 orang（“人”）和 hutan（“森林”），字面意思是“森林人”。

Probably via Dutch orang-oetan, orang-oetang, apparently from Malay orang hutan, orang utan (literally “forest man”), from orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”), although as a term for the animal it is attested only recently (earlier and preferred terms being mawas and mayas). As there is originally no evidence for its usage, except occasionally literally, it must be assumed to have been regional, or a descriptive collocation used to explain the animal to early travellers. Forms in -ng are alterations after the first element, orang. The name orangutan has been used in Old Javanese texts, notably in Rāmāyaṇa and Smaradahana, in the form of uraṅutan and wuraṅutan. Its usage to refer to the apes in these texts (from as early as the 9th century CE) has been seen as a refutation of claims that the name orangutan originates from a European source.

🔄 变式

orangutans plural

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