cannibal是什么意思

n. 食人者；吃同类的动物

adj. 食同类的；吃人肉的；凶残的

中文词源

cannibal 食人部落

来自Caribbean拼写变体。因早期欧洲殖民者认为加勒比海地区土著居民以人为食，而将该词带入英语。

cannibal: cannibal: [16] Cannibal was originally a proper name, applied by the Spaniards to the Carib people of the West Indies (whom they regarded as eaters of human flesh). It is a variant, originally used by Christopher Columbus, of Caribes, which comes from Carib, a word of Carib origin in the Arawakan language of northern South America and the Caribbean. It is related to the Caribs’ name for themselves, Galibi, literally ‘strong men’.
cannibal (n.): "human that eats human flesh," 1550s, from Spanish canibal, caribal "a savage, cannibal," from Caniba, Christopher Columbus' rendition of the Caribs' name for themselves (see Caribbean). The natives were believed to be anthropophagites. Columbus, seeking evidence that he was in Asia, thought the name meant the natives were subjects of the Great Khan. Shakespeare's Caliban (in "The Tempest") is from a version of this word, with -n- and -l- interchanged, found in Hakluyt's "Voyages" (1599). The Spanish word had reached French by 1515. Used of animals from 1796. An Old English word for "cannibal" was selfæta.

cannibal(食人者) 发音：啃你爸→自己吃自己亲人真是同类相食

1. Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been caught trying to hide a razor blade in his cell.: 食人杀手杰弗里·达默被抓到试图将一片剃须刀片藏在牢房里。

2. " We would like very much to have you for dinner, " as the cannibal said to the captured missionary.: 嗜食人肉的人对被俘掳的传教士说: “ 我们想设宴招待你(吃掉你) ”.

3. A life - thirsting , cannibal looking , bloody - minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine.: 那是圣安托万区的杰克三号, 一个嗜杀成性、食人生番式的、满怀血腥的陪审员.

4. His sharp cannibal teeth revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark.: 他那锋利的食人肉的牙齿,因为寒冷和愤怒而显露着, 在黑暗中闪闪发光.

5. The Cannibal won't get us without his seven - mile shoes.: 食人者没有他的七里的鞋子将抓不到我们.