caribouの意味・使い方・発音

caribou

英 ['kærɪbuː] 美 ['kærɪbu]

caribou: caribou: [17] Caribou is the name of a close North American relative of the reindeer, and it refers literally to the way in which the animal scratches at the snow with its hooves to find the grass, moss, etc that it eats. It comes from Mi’kmaq galipu (Mi’kmaq is an Algonquian language of eastern Canada), meaning ‘snowshoveller’, which in Canadian French became caribou.
caribou (n.): also cariboo, 1660s, from Canadian French caribou, from Micmac (Algonquian) kaleboo or a related Algonquian name, literally "pawer, scratcher," from its kicking snow aside to feed on moss and grass.

1. Afar off heard the squawking of caribou calves.

彼は遠くにトナカイの群れが叫ぶ声を聞いた。

-命を愛する

2.The Eskimos played soccer on ice and used balls filled with caribou hair and grass.

エスキモー人は氷の上でボールを蹴っている。トナカイの毛と草を充填したボールを使っている。

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3.A band of caribou passed by，twenty and odd animals，tantalizingly within rifle range.

トナカイの群れが歩いて行った。約20頭が、望ましくて不可のライフルの射程内にいた。dd>

-生命を愛する

5.WOLVES dine on moose and caribou ，creatures favoured by Alaska 's human hunters.: オオカミは北米のヘラジカとトナカイを餌にしているが、これもアラスカのハンターたちが大好きな獲物だ。