英语词汇“rhinoceros hide”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rhinoceros hide n. (a) the tanned skin of a rhinoceros, used as a material; (b) figurative insusceptibility to persuasion or argument; insensitivity to criticism; a ‘thick skin’.

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1801 W. Somerville Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Narr. Journeys Eastern Cape Frontier (1979) iii. 95 Ornaments of copper and iron rings round his wrists, also bracelets of Rhinoceros hide.

1836 Caledonian Mercury 12 Dec. Even this positive testimony could not pierce the rhinoceros hide of bigotry.

1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 48 The rhinoceros hide of a Webster.

1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 84 Rhinoceros-hide used for shields, targets, whips.

1937 H. Sauer Ex Afr. 193 Buffalo, giraffe, hippo, or rhinoceros hide..is trimmed to about the thickness of a lady's finger and made very pliable and supple by a process of ‘braying’ or constant rubbing by a greasy hand.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. x. 400 Could it be that Stalin felt this, too, through his rhinoceros hide?

1991 T. Hayden Killing Frost (BNC) 218 It was a South African sjambok, a heavy whip nine feet long, the lash not of leather but of rhinoceros hide.

单词	rhinoceros hide
释义	> as lemmas rhinoceros hide rhinoceros hide n. (a) the tanned skin of a rhinoceros, used as a material; (b) figurative insusceptibility to persuasion or argument; insensitivity to criticism; a ‘thick skin’. ΚΠ 1801 W. Somerville Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Narr. Journeys Eastern Cape Frontier (1979) iii. 95 Ornaments of copper and iron rings round his wrists, also bracelets of Rhinoceros hide. 1836 Caledonian Mercury 12 Dec. Even this positive testimony could not pierce the rhinoceros hide of bigotry. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 48 The rhinoceros hide of a Webster. 1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 84 Rhinoceros-hide used for shields, targets, whips. 1937 H. Sauer Ex Afr. 193 Buffalo, giraffe, hippo, or rhinoceros hide..is trimmed to about the thickness of a lady's finger and made very pliable and supple by a process of ‘braying’ or constant rubbing by a greasy hand. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. x. 400 Could it be that Stalin felt this, too, through his rhinoceros hide? 1991 T. Hayden Killing Frost (BNC) 218 It was a South African sjambok, a heavy whip nine feet long, the lash not of leather but of rhinoceros hide. extracted from rhinocerosn. < as lemmas
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