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cayman

/key-muhn/US // ˈkeɪ mən //UK // (ˈkeɪmən) //

卡伊曼,卡伊曼岛,卡伊曼人,开曼岛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cay·mans.

    • : a variant of caiman.

Examples

  • The British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Belize, and Switzerland.

  • Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands.

  • Biggest response: "He holds as much as $8 million in accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes on it."

  • He railed about how the law was being obstructed in Guantánamo Bay and about money laundering in the Cayman Islands and in London.

  • For a long time he had set his heart on catching a cayman, a kind of alligator that is found in the rivers of Guiana.

  • I had come above three hundred miles on purpose to get a cayman uninjured, and not to carry back a mutilated specimen.

  • Then the swift vessel, turning its prow toward Cayman's Cove, began to make toward the open sea.

  • The Cayman islands, in that neighborhood, are the summit of mountains bordering this deep valley at the bottom of the sea.

  • The cayman now seemed to have recovered from his surprise and plunged furiously, and lashed the sand with his long tail.