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单词 tortoise
释义 tortoise
 /tawr"teuhs/,  n.  
  1. a turtle, esp. a terrestrial turtle.
  2. a very slow person or thing.
  3. testudo (def. 1).
 [1350-1400; var. of earlier (15th-century) tortuse, tortose, tortuce, ME tortuca < ML tortuca, for LL tartarucha (fem. adj.) of Tartarus ( < Gk tartaroûcha), the tortoise being regarded as an infernal animal; ML form influenced by L tortus crooked, twisted (see TORT)]
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