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zoo

/zoo/US // zu //UK // (zuː) //

动物园,动物園

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural zoos.

    • : Also called zoological garden. a parklike area in which live animals are kept in cages or large enclosures for public exhibition.
    • : Informal. a place, activity, or group marked by chaos or unrestrained behavior.

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Examples

  • In addition, much of the FONZ fundraising, as well as the volunteer program, have been shifted over to the Smithsonian and the zoo, Monfort said.

  • I’ve become a little obsessed with the names we humans give animals, whether they are the pets in our homes or the wild animals that live at our zoos.

  • The zoo reported that the new cub, who bears the name Xiao Qi Ji, displays a caution reminiscent of his mother, Mei Xiang.

  • Another way viruses can change significantly is if they establish themselves in another species—even zoo tigers can catch covid—and then jump back to people.

  • In the 1980s, Escobar built himself a 7,000 acre estate that included, among other things a zoo, which included, among other things, four hippos—three females and a male bought from a zoo in California.

  • Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.

  • She worked with wildlife as a volunteer in Peru and the Galapagos; she worked with elephants in Thailand, at a zoo in Australia.

  • They asked the director of the Buffalo Zoo for some wallaby hair.

  • The zoo is blessed with multiple wallabies and was happy to oblige.

  • I can appreciate the perspective that my experience is akin to visiting a human zoo.

  • I remember him saying once—it was at the Zoo—what a pity it was he hadn't enough to divide among the whole Cabinet.

  • Human resemblances at the Zoo are quite enough to call up this purely functional giggling.

  • Did you ever see the great python that died lately at the Zoo climb his ragged staff of a tree?

  • There are any number of different kinds of monkeys, as you can see any day in the monkey house at the Zoo.

  • We caught the papa in a trap after he had killed a number of grouse, and not being badly hurt, I sent him to Bartlett at the Zoo.