名詞 chameleon:

1. a changeable or inconstant person
2. a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa
   同義詞：Chamaeleon
3. lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
   同義詞：chamaeleon

1. The chameleon can take on the colours of its background.
   避役可將身體顏色變得與周圍環(huán)境相同。

cha.me.leon

n.（名詞）
Any of various tropical Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleonidae, characterized by their ability to change color.
避役：避役科舊大陸赤道地區(qū)蜥蜴的一種，以其變色能力為特征
See anole
參見 anole
A changeable or inconstant person:
多變的人，反復(fù)無常的人：
例句：
.In his testimony, the nominee came off as . . . a chameleon of legal philosophy.(Joseph A. Califano, Jr.)
.在他的供詞中，候選人…巧妙地利用了他對法律原則的了解.(小約瑟夫A.卡里法諾)

來源：
Middle English camelioun
中古英語 camelioun
from Latin chamaeleôn
源自 拉丁語 chamaeleôn
from Greek khamaileôn
源自 希臘語 khamaileôn
khamai [on the ground] * see dhghem-
khamai [在地面上] *參見 dhghem-
leôn [lion] loan translation of Akkadian nôô qaqqari [ground lion, lizard] * see lion
leôn [獅] 阿卡德語 nôô qaqqari的翻譯借詞 [蜥蜴] *參見 lion

【引伸】
chame.leon.ic
<注釋>The words referring to the animal chameleon and the plant chamomile are related etymologically by a reference to the place one would expect to find them, that is, on the ground.The first part of both words goes back to the Greek formkhamai, meaning .on the ground.. What is found on the ground in each case is quite different, of course.Thekhamaileôn is a .lion [ leôn ] on the ground,. a term translating the Akkadian phrasenôô qaqqari. Thekhamaimôlon is .an apple [ môlon ] on the ground,. so named because the blossoms of at least one variety of this creeping herb have an applelike scent.Both words are first found in Middle English,chameleon in a work composed before 382 andchamomile in a work written in 373.
指動物變色蜥蜴和植物春黃菊的詞，在詞源上通過人們預(yù)期可找到它們的地點（即地面上）而相關(guān)聯(lián)。這兩個詞的前一部分都可追溯到希臘形式khamai 意思為.在地面上。. 當然，兩種情形下在地面上發(fā)現(xiàn)的東西是非常不同的。Khamaileon 是指.地面上的獅子 [ leon ].， 即阿卡得短語nes qaqqari 翻譯過來的詞語。 Khamaimelon 是指.地面上的蘋果 melon .， 之所以這么命名是因為至少有一類這種蔓生草本植物所開的花具有類似蘋果的氣味。兩個詞最初出現(xiàn)在中古英語里面，chameleon 出現(xiàn)于382年前的一部作品， chamomile 出現(xiàn)于373年的一部作品里