| 释义 |
Bornean, a. and n.|ˈbɔːnɪən|
Also 9 Borneon.
[f. Borneo (see below) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Borneo, the largest island in the Indonesian Archipelago.
B. n. A native of Borneo.
1812J. Hunt in H. Keppel Exped. Borneo (1846) II. p. xxxi, The fruit-bearing trees which enrich and adorn the Indian continent offer, on the Borneon shore, all their kindred varieties. 1839J. Brooke Jrnl. 19 Sept. in Ibid. I. iv. 78 Let me speak it to the honour of the Borneons, that they neither cock-fight nor smoke opium. 1850Kingsley Alton Locke II. xv. 222 A baby-ape in Borneon forests. 1863Boys' Own Mag. II. 396 Such a course is quite impracticable with a Bornean. Ibid. 511 And here I may say was an end of my Bornean adventures. 1920Q. Rev. July 175 Their ancient Italian forefathers..were clearly once at much the same grade of social development as the Bornean tribes. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate ii. 228 Genuine and aboriginal Borneans. 1965P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xv. 215 A trio of Bornean Great Argus and several Greater Bornean Crested Fireback Pheasants as well as a number of the rare Chestnut Flanked Bornean Tree Partridges. |