gorilla.
大猩猩,猩猩,猩红,猩红猩猩
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a terrestrial, largely vegetarian great ape of the genus Gorilla, inhabiting central African forests: possessing great upper body strength, with arms longer and more muscular than its legs, it is noted for its knuckle-walking and is larger than any other living primate.See also Cross River gorilla, eastern gorilla, eastern lowland gorilla, mountain gorilla, western gorilla, western lowland gorilla.
- ›an ugly, brutish person.
- ›Slang. a hoodlum or thug, especially one who threatens or inflicts violence: Like any mob boss, he sent his gorillas to do the dirty work.
- ›Disparaging and Offensive.
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Francine Patterson is the animal psychologist who became famous for training Koko the gorilla to communicate using what she called “Gorilla Sign Language.”
BlackRock, Wall Street’s 800-pound gorilla, is putting climate change risk at the center of its investing strategy.
The San Diego Zoo’s description of an October incident when gorillas in an exhibit got into a rumble and broke a layer of the window glass separating the animals from peopleEven the gorillas are sick of this year.
He’s the 900-pound gorilla when it comes to the Republican Party.
As she imaged more and more, “I started to get a feel for the difference between human and gorilla hearts,” says Kutinsky.
Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.
Then twelve guys come out and beat the gorilla over the head.
Kerr was adamant that the gorilla tie was not a statement about evolution, but “about life.”
In Uganda, the World Wildlife Fund estimates each gorilla rakes in $1 million in revenue each year.
A hunter comes across a sickly , too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.