释义 |
Huichol|wiːˈtʃəʊl| [Sp., from the native name.] A. n. a. A people of Mexican Indians; a member of this people. b. The language of this people. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1900Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. III. i. i. 22 According to the Huichol myths, corn was once deer, the deer having been the chief source of food in earliest times. Ibid. vi. 154 With the Huichol, the ‘eye’ is the symbol of the power of seeing and understanding unknown things. Ibid. ix. 185 Peculiar to certain rain-making feasts are a stick and a dried armadillo, which form the paraphernalia of the clown.., called in Huichol Sikwaíki. 1903C. Lumholtz Unknown Mexico II. v. 91 The Huichols occasionally made comments that betrayed very fair reasoning powers. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. x. 228 ‘Glorified God’ (Mark 2:12) becomes in Huichol ‘said to God: You are of good heart.’ 1972Language XXXVIII. 847 Hockett adds Huichol which has ‘/ɨ / instead of /ü/’. |