1. 1哺乳動物

    A mammal is an animal whose babies drink milk from the mother’s body. Hair or fur is common, and most mammals are warm inside even when the air is cold. People are mammals; so are dogs, cats, bats, and — though it still surprises students — whales and dolphins, which have no fur you can see but still nurse their young. The word is the ordinary school-science word for that whole group; it is not slang and not emotional. You can say “Humans are mammals” in a calm, factual way. It names the kind of animal, not “an animal that lives with a mother”.

core核心畫面

組成From Modern Latin Mammalia, the class name Linnaeus coined in 1758, from Late Latin mammalis “of the breast”, from Latin mamma “breast”.

同家族的字

  • mammalianmammalian is mammal plus -ian
  • mammaryboth come from Latin mamma, “breast”
  • mammogrammammo- in mammogram is the same “breast” piece

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mammalnoun/ˈmæməl/

  • 1

    A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young.

  • 2

    biologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

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