名詞 gorilla:

1. largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
   同義詞：Gorilla gorilla

1. The gorilla had a massive forehead.
   猩猩的前額很大。
2. The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene.
   在非洲大舞臺上大猩猩有點象似是而非的雋語。

go.ril.la

n.（名詞）
The largest of the anthropoid apes(Gorilla gorilla) native to the forests of equatorial Africa, having a stocky body and coarse, dark brown or black hair.
大猩猩：棲居在赤道非洲的最大的類人猿（大猩猩） ，體型粗壯，頭發(fā)很粗，呈深棕色或黑色
Slang
【俚語】
A brutish man.
殘暴的人
A thug.
暴徒

來源：
New Latin
現(xiàn)代拉丁語
from Greek Gorillai [a tribe of hairy women]
源自 希臘語 Gorillai [多毛女人的部落]
[perhaps of African origin]
[可能源于非洲語的]

<注釋>Two traditions of exploration come together in the history of the wordgorilla, which also illustrates how knowledge of the classics has influenced scientific terminology.Dr. Thomas S. Savage, an American missionary to western Africa,first described the gorilla in 847, giving it the New Latin nameTroglodytes gorilla. In doing so he was using his knowledge of Greek literature,in which there exists a fourth-centuryb.c. translation of a report written by Hanno, another visitor to western Africa. This Carthaginian navigator,who voyaged before 480b.c. , went as far as Sierra Leone in his explorations.In the Greek translation of his reporthe tells of seeingGorillai, the name of which he allegedly learned from local informantsand which he thought were members of a tribe of hairy women.In fact they were probably the same creatures that Thomas Savage described about 24 centuries later.
在涉及到gorilla 這個詞的歷史時，傳說中的兩次探險可以聯(lián)系在一起， 這同樣也證明了古典文學對科學術(shù)語命名的影響。湯姆斯·S·薩維奇醫(yī)生，到西非傳教的美國傳教士，在847年第一次描述了大猩猩并給它起了個新拉丁語名字Troglodytes gorilla 。 在命名時他就用了希臘文學知識，這個命名也同樣出現(xiàn)在一本公元前 4世紀安諾寫的見聞譯本里，安諾也到過西非。 這位迦太基航海家，公元前 480年之前開始出航， 在他的探險過程中，最遠到達過塞拉利昂。在他寫見聞的希臘譯本里，他說他見到了Gorillai ， 據(jù)他自己聲稱他是從當?shù)叵驅(qū)莾簩W到這個名字的，并認為它是指多毛女人部落的成員。實際上他們可能是大約24世紀以后湯姆斯·薩奇所描述的同樣的動物