Definition of lion in English:

lion

noun ˈlʌɪənˈlaɪən

1A large tawny-coloured cat that lives in prides, found in Africa and north-western India. The male has a flowing shaggy mane and takes little part in hunting, which is done cooperatively by the females.
狮子
Panthera leo, family Felidae
Example sentencesExamples
- However, they sometimes reached the pinnacle of honor by killing lions on their own.
- South Africa contributes about 30 percent of lions hunted in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Apparently they don't even have the delightful touch farm and lion enclosure anymore.
- For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers.
- The zoo had received its three Asiatic lions just two years ago as part of a European endangered species programme.
- The river has chiselled the mountain face, making it resemble a lion's paw.
- Living with elephants and giraffes, and seeing lions hunt and kill, was fantastic.
- A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces.
- A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool.
- Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights.
- She noticed an intricately carved, roaring lion's head was at the end of the banister.
- Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years.
- At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion.
- There are springbok, wildebeest, red hartebeest, lion, leopard, cheetah and giraffe among others.
- Three year-old male lions grow manes that vary in color from black to blond.
- Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
- The crowd roars like a lion in a cage.
- Male African lions perform this maneuver when they consort with a receptive female, herding her in the desired direction.
- Wild African lions roam free within ten minutes drive of the center of Nairobi, Kenya.
- In field experiments female lions tend to choose male partners with the darkest manes.
Synonyms
big cat
king of the beasts
lioness
1. 1.1 The lion as an emblem (e.g. of English or Scottish royalty) or as a charge in heraldry.
  狮子纹章（如英格兰或苏格兰王室的徽记）；纹章上的狮子标记
  Example sentencesExamples
  Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
  Notice the maker's mark is missing and that the lion passant mark is eroded in a peculiar fashion not consistent with normal wear.
  The ancient emblem for the nation was a lion holding a scimitar against a rising sun.
  It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark.
  On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew.
  It was Italian, with a crest on it embroidered with three lions inside the shield with two more lions holding up the logo.
  Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I.
  In the very few crannies left behind are fleurs-de-lis, rampant lions, unicorns, dogs, and vases of flowers.
  In his 66 displays with the three lions proudly emblazoned on his chest he rarely put a foot wrong.
  Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India.
  When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs.
  This design is blazoned as ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or,’ and it is still the coat of arms of England today.
  I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from.
  People filed by the coffin covered with the Queen Mother's personal standard which mixed the Royal Arms with the bows and lions of her own Bowes Lyon family.
  The Sri Lankan flag with the trademark lion embossed in the middle is flying high around the ring and every time a Sri Lankan batsman hits a boundary the roar from the crowd gets louder.
  The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
  There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
  Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin.
  He wanted a unique way to show his support for England and so he had the three lions emblem and St George's cross engraved on his false teeth.
  They have two flags - the lion rampant and the saltire - but no national anthem.
2. 1.2the Lion The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo.
  狮子星座
3. 1.3 A brave, strong, or fierce person.
  〈喻〉勇敢强壮（或残忍）的人
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would have been easy to retire and fade back and let the new lions take charge, but this never crossed Al's mind.
  Though this lion has the tendency to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is unrestrained in bed.
  Rather, it's in betting on which young lion may take him out.
  Synonyms
  hero, man of courage, brave man, lionheart, lionhearted man
  conqueror, champion, conquering hero, warrior, knight, paladin
4. 1.4usually literary lion A notable or famous author.
  著名作家；文坛巨擘
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's the son of ‘Black Jack’ Michelet, an overbearing literary lion on the scale of a Norman Mailer.
  In his time, novelist-playwright Bulwer-Lytton was one of England's literary lions, but his reputation did not survive into the 20th century.
  He does not ignore the psychological complexities of Ellison, who was not the drab, neutered literary lion some critics made him out to be.
  Soon he was to move on to London and celebrity, becoming a literary lion of the metropolis of the Nineties.
  Even bigger if you add that he's working with a major publisher and that literary lion Kurt Vonnegut calls the book ‘… nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war…‘
  Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print.
  It's the eagerly awaited second novel from the 28-year-old Foer, currently the hottest young literary lion around (he was the cover story of the Feb. 27 issue of the New York Times magazine).
  Authors sit in the green room waiting to go on, literary lions about to be eaten by library Christians.
  Endre Farkas' invitation to celebrate literary lion Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday inspired a series of performative prose-poem vignettes, Proem Cards From Chile.
  Is Tim trying to hold off the emerging influence of a young leftie lion?
  Scott was 15 or so, and Burns was 28, but already a literary lion.
  Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability.
  The Advocate asked him to remember a fellow literary lion.
  J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become.
  Of Dawson's three literary lions, London has by far the greatest international reputation, especially among Europeans.
  Tweedy Upper West Side literary lion teams up with Wall Street mogul to launch multimedia content ‘brand.’
  A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences.
  When he relates his one adult visit to her - he by then a rising literary lion, she a well-known poet - he recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean.
  His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion.
  Maybe just the act of posting a novel in a forum where bored Babus can read it and slam it will be enough to awaken the sleeping literary lion in aspiring novelists.
  The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her.
  That particular party was full of literary lions and George was in his element.
  He has been justly celebrated as a business lion - and the book reveals a certain beastliness.
  Synonyms
  celebrity, person of note, dignitary, notable, VIP, personality, public figure, celebutante, pillar of society, luminary
  star, superstar, big name, leading light, idol, magnate
  informal big shot, bigwig, big noise, big wheel, big cheese, big gun, somebody, celeb, hotshot, megastar
2A member of a touring international rugby union team representing the British Isles.
狮子队队员（国际英式橄榄球巡回队队员，代表不列颠群岛）
Example sentencesExamples
- A sensation in union with his hat-trick of tries against a 1955 British Lions rugby union side, he delighted the crowds at Knowsley Road for 10 years in the 1950s and 1960s.
- The next Lions tour is to New Zealand, where I went with them in 1993.
- ‘Rob is a great player and it says everything that he was the first choice scrum-half on two British Lions ' tours only for injury to get in the way,’ he said.
- But the former Wasps centre is not about to embark on a playing career in Australia - he has won a national competition to follow the British Lions rugby union team on tour.
- There have been 10 official Lions tours of New Zealand since.
3A member of a Lions Club.
狮子俱乐部成员
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a Lion, who joined in 1975 and became the first Secretary of the Virgin Gorda Lions Club.

Phrases

the lion's den

A demanding, intimidating, or unpleasant place or situation.
险境；令人为难的境地，尴尬境地
he marched reluctantly into the lion's den to address the charity gala
他硬着头皮在慈善活动特别演出会这个尴尬场合上致辞。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was right in the lion's den as he had about 500 supporters in his home arena.
- There is no doubt in my mind that this is a lion's den.
- To throw him into the lion's den that currently represents senior international football would be to risk terminating the joy of his sporting adolescence before the natural maturation process is complete.
- We know that we are going into the lion's den and we are playing against a side who can score five goals against anybody on any given day.
- Pushing these children back into mainstream education where they have already failed would be like throwing them into the lion's den.
- He never fails to persuade Jones to follow him into the lion's den.
- Invited to address a hostile police conference in Bournemouth, the Home Secretary was widely perceived to be walking into the lion's den.
- He should've known better than to bring her into the lion's den.
- There was never room for doubt that he would not survive in the lion's den of comedy: ‘It's one of those things where you have to be relentless.’
- It was a bit like walking into the lion's den really.

the lion's share

The largest part of something.
最大的一份
Example sentencesExamples
- It generated more than the lion's share of news headlines this weekend.
- How can we possibly be losing out when we get the lion's share?
- And yet it has been the market, not public funding, that has generated the lion's share of successful cultural mixing in the arts.
- Unfortunately, the United States must share the lion's share of the burden for now.
- It's their intellectual property; they've generated the hype, so they feel they deserve the lion's share of the profits.
- Bobby gets the lion's share of the book, close to 300 pages.
Synonyms
most, the majority, the larger number, the larger part, the greater number, the greater part, the best part, the better part, the main part, more than half, the bulk, the preponderance

throw someone to the lions

Cause someone to be in an extremely dangerous or unpleasant situation.
使某人处于险境（或困境）
Example sentencesExamples
- Whatever it was, suddenly she had been thrown to the lions.
- I am willing to give it a shot by throwing him to the lions and asking him what he prefers afterwards.
- Everyone there reckoned the BBC were throwing him to the lions, but he waltzed through it and has gone from strength to strength ever since.
- Hey, at least we're not throwing them to the lions.
- ‘The third,’ Reilly said, ‘are like Nero, who would throw us to the lions any chance they got.’
- When he misled Downing Street, Campbell the gladiator was instrumental in throwing him to the lions.
- The king wants you alive so he can throw you to the lions.
- Maybe Claudio would be better off breaking free from the Roman Empire before he is thrown to the lions.
- If they'll agree not to throw us to the lions we promise not to provide any more fodder for bad movies.
- She believes that David was treated roughly by those who threw him to the lions, with little advice or guidance.

Derivatives

lion-like

adjective

His ruggedly handsome features and lion-like eyes lend him a subtle air of ferocity, despite his blank expression.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yellow dogs were also more lion-like in appearance.
- More often than not, that last little bit doesn't get thrown in with lion-like qualities.
- The lion-like predator, which could stand nearly one metre and weighed about 250 kilograms, had a pair of retractable thumb-like claws to disembowel or drag prey up trees.
- She closed her eyes with another wide lion-like yawn.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French liun, from Latin leo, leon-, from Greek leōn, leont-.

The lions known in parts of Europe and around the Mediterranean in early times were not African but Asiatic lions, rare animals in the 21st century. The name lion came into English from French, and ultimately from Greek leōn. The Anglo-Saxons had used the Latin form Leo, which was overtaken by lion for the animal, but which is still the name of a constellation and sign of the zodiac.
In ancient Rome lions and other wild beasts provided entertainment in the amphitheatres. Christians and other dissidents were left at their mercy in the arena, a practice behind our phrase to throw someone to the lions. After the terrible slaughter of British soldiers during the First World War, the phrase lions led by donkeys became popular as a way of encapsulating the idea that the men had been brave, but had been let down by their senior officers. It is not clear who first came up with the description, but the French troops defeated by the Prussians in 1871 were described as ‘lions led by packasses’. From medieval times until the opening of London Zoo in the 19th century, the Tower of London contained a menagerie of unusual animals, among which were lions. Not surprisingly, they were a great attraction for visitors to the city, and the phrase to see the lions sprang up with the meaning ‘to see the sights or attractions of a place’. From there a lion became a celebrity or noted person, a sense which gave us lionize, ‘to treat as a celebrity’, in the 1830s. See also beard

Rhymes

Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, Hawaiian, ion, iron, Ixion, Lyon, Mayan, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan, Zion

Definition of lion in US English:

lion

nounˈlaɪənˈlīən

1A large tawny-colored cat that lives in prides, found in Africa and northwestern India. The male has a flowing shaggy mane and takes little part in hunting, which is done cooperatively by the females.
狮子
Panthera leo, family Felidae
Example sentencesExamples
- South Africa contributes about 30 percent of lions hunted in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The crowd roars like a lion in a cage.
- Male African lions perform this maneuver when they consort with a receptive female, herding her in the desired direction.
- Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years.
- There are springbok, wildebeest, red hartebeest, lion, leopard, cheetah and giraffe among others.
- Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
- For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers.
- Living with elephants and giraffes, and seeing lions hunt and kill, was fantastic.
- The zoo had received its three Asiatic lions just two years ago as part of a European endangered species programme.
- Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights.
- However, they sometimes reached the pinnacle of honor by killing lions on their own.
- She noticed an intricately carved, roaring lion's head was at the end of the banister.
- Three year-old male lions grow manes that vary in color from black to blond.
- Apparently they don't even have the delightful touch farm and lion enclosure anymore.
- Wild African lions roam free within ten minutes drive of the center of Nairobi, Kenya.
- In field experiments female lions tend to choose male partners with the darkest manes.
- A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool.
- The river has chiselled the mountain face, making it resemble a lion's paw.
- A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces.
- At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion.
Synonyms
big cat
1. 1.1 The lion as an emblem (e.g. of English or Scottish royalty) or as a charge in heraldry.
  狮子纹章（如英格兰或苏格兰王室的徽记）；纹章上的狮子标记
  Example sentencesExamples
  On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew.
  People filed by the coffin covered with the Queen Mother's personal standard which mixed the Royal Arms with the bows and lions of her own Bowes Lyon family.
  It was Italian, with a crest on it embroidered with three lions inside the shield with two more lions holding up the logo.
  It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark.
  He wanted a unique way to show his support for England and so he had the three lions emblem and St George's cross engraved on his false teeth.
  Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India.
  The ancient emblem for the nation was a lion holding a scimitar against a rising sun.
  In his 66 displays with the three lions proudly emblazoned on his chest he rarely put a foot wrong.
  They have two flags - the lion rampant and the saltire - but no national anthem.
  I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from.
  The Sri Lankan flag with the trademark lion embossed in the middle is flying high around the ring and every time a Sri Lankan batsman hits a boundary the roar from the crowd gets louder.
  Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I.
  Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin.
  There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
  In the very few crannies left behind are fleurs-de-lis, rampant lions, unicorns, dogs, and vases of flowers.
  This design is blazoned as ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or,’ and it is still the coat of arms of England today.
  Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
  Notice the maker's mark is missing and that the lion passant mark is eroded in a peculiar fashion not consistent with normal wear.
  The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
  When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs.
2. 1.2the Lion The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo.
  狮子星座
3. 1.3 A brave or strong person.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would have been easy to retire and fade back and let the new lions take charge, but this never crossed Al's mind.
  Rather, it's in betting on which young lion may take him out.
  Though this lion has the tendency to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is unrestrained in bed.
  Synonyms
  hero, man of courage, brave man, lionheart, lionhearted man
4. 1.4 An influential or celebrated person.
  a literary lion
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tweedy Upper West Side literary lion teams up with Wall Street mogul to launch multimedia content ‘brand.’
  That particular party was full of literary lions and George was in his element.
  The Advocate asked him to remember a fellow literary lion.
  It's the eagerly awaited second novel from the 28-year-old Foer, currently the hottest young literary lion around (he was the cover story of the Feb. 27 issue of the New York Times magazine).
  When he relates his one adult visit to her - he by then a rising literary lion, she a well-known poet - he recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean.
  J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become.
  Endre Farkas' invitation to celebrate literary lion Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday inspired a series of performative prose-poem vignettes, Proem Cards From Chile.
  Of Dawson's three literary lions, London has by far the greatest international reputation, especially among Europeans.
  In his time, novelist-playwright Bulwer-Lytton was one of England's literary lions, but his reputation did not survive into the 20th century.
  Scott was 15 or so, and Burns was 28, but already a literary lion.
  Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability.
  He's the son of ‘Black Jack’ Michelet, an overbearing literary lion on the scale of a Norman Mailer.
  He has been justly celebrated as a business lion - and the book reveals a certain beastliness.
  His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion.
  Maybe just the act of posting a novel in a forum where bored Babus can read it and slam it will be enough to awaken the sleeping literary lion in aspiring novelists.
  Even bigger if you add that he's working with a major publisher and that literary lion Kurt Vonnegut calls the book ‘… nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war…‘
  The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her.
  Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print.
  Soon he was to move on to London and celebrity, becoming a literary lion of the metropolis of the Nineties.
  Is Tim trying to hold off the emerging influence of a young leftie lion?
  Authors sit in the green room waiting to go on, literary lions about to be eaten by library Christians.
  He does not ignore the psychological complexities of Ellison, who was not the drab, neutered literary lion some critics made him out to be.
  A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences.
  Synonyms
  celebrity, person of note, dignitary, notable, vip, personality, public figure, celebutante, pillar of society, luminary
2A member of a Lions Club.
狮子俱乐部成员
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a Lion, who joined in 1975 and became the first Secretary of the Virgin Gorda Lions Club.

Phrases

throw someone to the lions

Cause someone to be in an extremely dangerous or unpleasant situation.
使某人处于险境（或困境）
Example sentencesExamples
- If they'll agree not to throw us to the lions we promise not to provide any more fodder for bad movies.
- Everyone there reckoned the BBC were throwing him to the lions, but he waltzed through it and has gone from strength to strength ever since.
- Whatever it was, suddenly she had been thrown to the lions.
- When he misled Downing Street, Campbell the gladiator was instrumental in throwing him to the lions.
- I am willing to give it a shot by throwing him to the lions and asking him what he prefers afterwards.
- ‘The third,’ Reilly said, ‘are like Nero, who would throw us to the lions any chance they got.’
- She believes that David was treated roughly by those who threw him to the lions, with little advice or guidance.
- Maybe Claudio would be better off breaking free from the Roman Empire before he is thrown to the lions.
- Hey, at least we're not throwing them to the lions.
- The king wants you alive so he can throw you to the lions.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French liun, from Latin leo, leon-, from Greek leōn, leont-.

词汇	lion
释义	Definition of lion in English: lion noun ˈlʌɪənˈlaɪən 1A large tawny-coloured cat that lives in prides, found in Africa and north-western India. The male has a flowing shaggy mane and takes little part in hunting, which is done cooperatively by the females. 狮子 Panthera leo, family Felidae Example sentencesExamples However, they sometimes reached the pinnacle of honor by killing lions on their own. South Africa contributes about 30 percent of lions hunted in sub-Saharan Africa. Apparently they don't even have the delightful touch farm and lion enclosure anymore. For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers. The zoo had received its three Asiatic lions just two years ago as part of a European endangered species programme. The river has chiselled the mountain face, making it resemble a lion's paw. Living with elephants and giraffes, and seeing lions hunt and kill, was fantastic. A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces. A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool. Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights. She noticed an intricately carved, roaring lion's head was at the end of the banister. Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years. At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. There are springbok, wildebeest, red hartebeest, lion, leopard, cheetah and giraffe among others. Three year-old male lions grow manes that vary in color from black to blond. Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity. The crowd roars like a lion in a cage. Male African lions perform this maneuver when they consort with a receptive female, herding her in the desired direction. Wild African lions roam free within ten minutes drive of the center of Nairobi, Kenya. In field experiments female lions tend to choose male partners with the darkest manes. Synonyms big cat king of the beasts lioness 1.1 The lion as an emblem (e.g. of English or Scottish royalty) or as a charge in heraldry. 狮子纹章（如英格兰或苏格兰王室的徽记）；纹章上的狮子标记 Example sentencesExamples Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys. Notice the maker's mark is missing and that the lion passant mark is eroded in a peculiar fashion not consistent with normal wear. The ancient emblem for the nation was a lion holding a scimitar against a rising sun. It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark. On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew. It was Italian, with a crest on it embroidered with three lions inside the shield with two more lions holding up the logo. Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I. In the very few crannies left behind are fleurs-de-lis, rampant lions, unicorns, dogs, and vases of flowers. In his 66 displays with the three lions proudly emblazoned on his chest he rarely put a foot wrong. Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India. When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs. This design is blazoned as ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or,’ and it is still the coat of arms of England today. I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from. People filed by the coffin covered with the Queen Mother's personal standard which mixed the Royal Arms with the bows and lions of her own Bowes Lyon family. The Sri Lankan flag with the trademark lion embossed in the middle is flying high around the ring and every time a Sri Lankan batsman hits a boundary the roar from the crowd gets louder. The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings. There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf. Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin. He wanted a unique way to show his support for England and so he had the three lions emblem and St George's cross engraved on his false teeth. They have two flags - the lion rampant and the saltire - but no national anthem. 1.2the Lion The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo. 狮子星座 1.3 A brave, strong, or fierce person. 〈喻〉勇敢强壮（或残忍）的人 Example sentencesExamples It would have been easy to retire and fade back and let the new lions take charge, but this never crossed Al's mind. Though this lion has the tendency to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is unrestrained in bed. Rather, it's in betting on which young lion may take him out. Synonyms hero, man of courage, brave man, lionheart, lionhearted man conqueror, champion, conquering hero, warrior, knight, paladin 1.4usually literary lion A notable or famous author. 著名作家；文坛巨擘 Example sentencesExamples He's the son of ‘Black Jack’ Michelet, an overbearing literary lion on the scale of a Norman Mailer. In his time, novelist-playwright Bulwer-Lytton was one of England's literary lions, but his reputation did not survive into the 20th century. He does not ignore the psychological complexities of Ellison, who was not the drab, neutered literary lion some critics made him out to be. Soon he was to move on to London and celebrity, becoming a literary lion of the metropolis of the Nineties. Even bigger if you add that he's working with a major publisher and that literary lion Kurt Vonnegut calls the book ‘… nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war…‘ Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print. It's the eagerly awaited second novel from the 28-year-old Foer, currently the hottest young literary lion around (he was the cover story of the Feb. 27 issue of the New York Times magazine). Authors sit in the green room waiting to go on, literary lions about to be eaten by library Christians. Endre Farkas' invitation to celebrate literary lion Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday inspired a series of performative prose-poem vignettes, Proem Cards From Chile. Is Tim trying to hold off the emerging influence of a young leftie lion? Scott was 15 or so, and Burns was 28, but already a literary lion. Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability. The Advocate asked him to remember a fellow literary lion. J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become. Of Dawson's three literary lions, London has by far the greatest international reputation, especially among Europeans. Tweedy Upper West Side literary lion teams up with Wall Street mogul to launch multimedia content ‘brand.’ A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences. When he relates his one adult visit to her - he by then a rising literary lion, she a well-known poet - he recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean. His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion. Maybe just the act of posting a novel in a forum where bored Babus can read it and slam it will be enough to awaken the sleeping literary lion in aspiring novelists. The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her. That particular party was full of literary lions and George was in his element. He has been justly celebrated as a business lion - and the book reveals a certain beastliness. Synonyms celebrity, person of note, dignitary, notable, VIP, personality, public figure, celebutante, pillar of society, luminary star, superstar, big name, leading light, idol, magnate informal big shot, bigwig, big noise, big wheel, big cheese, big gun, somebody, celeb, hotshot, megastar 2A member of a touring international rugby union team representing the British Isles. 狮子队队员（国际英式橄榄球巡回队队员，代表不列颠群岛） Example sentencesExamples A sensation in union with his hat-trick of tries against a 1955 British Lions rugby union side, he delighted the crowds at Knowsley Road for 10 years in the 1950s and 1960s. The next Lions tour is to New Zealand, where I went with them in 1993. ‘Rob is a great player and it says everything that he was the first choice scrum-half on two British Lions ' tours only for injury to get in the way,’ he said. But the former Wasps centre is not about to embark on a playing career in Australia - he has won a national competition to follow the British Lions rugby union team on tour. There have been 10 official Lions tours of New Zealand since. 3A member of a Lions Club. 狮子俱乐部成员 Example sentencesExamples He was a Lion, who joined in 1975 and became the first Secretary of the Virgin Gorda Lions Club. Phrases the lion's den A demanding, intimidating, or unpleasant place or situation. 险境；令人为难的境地，尴尬境地 he marched reluctantly into the lion's den to address the charity gala 他硬着头皮在慈善活动特别演出会这个尴尬场合上致辞。 Example sentencesExamples I was right in the lion's den as he had about 500 supporters in his home arena. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a lion's den. To throw him into the lion's den that currently represents senior international football would be to risk terminating the joy of his sporting adolescence before the natural maturation process is complete. We know that we are going into the lion's den and we are playing against a side who can score five goals against anybody on any given day. Pushing these children back into mainstream education where they have already failed would be like throwing them into the lion's den. He never fails to persuade Jones to follow him into the lion's den. Invited to address a hostile police conference in Bournemouth, the Home Secretary was widely perceived to be walking into the lion's den. He should've known better than to bring her into the lion's den. There was never room for doubt that he would not survive in the lion's den of comedy: ‘It's one of those things where you have to be relentless.’ It was a bit like walking into the lion's den really. the lion's share The largest part of something. 最大的一份 Example sentencesExamples It generated more than the lion's share of news headlines this weekend. How can we possibly be losing out when we get the lion's share? And yet it has been the market, not public funding, that has generated the lion's share of successful cultural mixing in the arts. Unfortunately, the United States must share the lion's share of the burden for now. It's their intellectual property; they've generated the hype, so they feel they deserve the lion's share of the profits. Bobby gets the lion's share of the book, close to 300 pages. Synonyms most, the majority, the larger number, the larger part, the greater number, the greater part, the best part, the better part, the main part, more than half, the bulk, the preponderance throw someone to the lions Cause someone to be in an extremely dangerous or unpleasant situation. 使某人处于险境（或困境） Example sentencesExamples Whatever it was, suddenly she had been thrown to the lions. I am willing to give it a shot by throwing him to the lions and asking him what he prefers afterwards. Everyone there reckoned the BBC were throwing him to the lions, but he waltzed through it and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Hey, at least we're not throwing them to the lions. ‘The third,’ Reilly said, ‘are like Nero, who would throw us to the lions any chance they got.’ When he misled Downing Street, Campbell the gladiator was instrumental in throwing him to the lions. The king wants you alive so he can throw you to the lions. Maybe Claudio would be better off breaking free from the Roman Empire before he is thrown to the lions. If they'll agree not to throw us to the lions we promise not to provide any more fodder for bad movies. She believes that David was treated roughly by those who threw him to the lions, with little advice or guidance. Derivatives lion-like adjective His ruggedly handsome features and lion-like eyes lend him a subtle air of ferocity, despite his blank expression. Example sentencesExamples Yellow dogs were also more lion-like in appearance. More often than not, that last little bit doesn't get thrown in with lion-like qualities. The lion-like predator, which could stand nearly one metre and weighed about 250 kilograms, had a pair of retractable thumb-like claws to disembowel or drag prey up trees. She closed her eyes with another wide lion-like yawn. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French liun, from Latin leo, leon-, from Greek leōn, leont-. The lions known in parts of Europe and around the Mediterranean in early times were not African but Asiatic lions, rare animals in the 21st century. The name lion came into English from French, and ultimately from Greek leōn. The Anglo-Saxons had used the Latin form Leo, which was overtaken by lion for the animal, but which is still the name of a constellation and sign of the zodiac. In ancient Rome lions and other wild beasts provided entertainment in the amphitheatres. Christians and other dissidents were left at their mercy in the arena, a practice behind our phrase to throw someone to the lions. After the terrible slaughter of British soldiers during the First World War, the phrase lions led by donkeys became popular as a way of encapsulating the idea that the men had been brave, but had been let down by their senior officers. It is not clear who first came up with the description, but the French troops defeated by the Prussians in 1871 were described as ‘lions led by packasses’. From medieval times until the opening of London Zoo in the 19th century, the Tower of London contained a menagerie of unusual animals, among which were lions. Not surprisingly, they were a great attraction for visitors to the city, and the phrase to see the lions sprang up with the meaning ‘to see the sights or attractions of a place’. From there a lion became a celebrity or noted person, a sense which gave us lionize, ‘to treat as a celebrity’, in the 1830s. See also beard Rhymes Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, Hawaiian, ion, iron, Ixion, Lyon, Mayan, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan, Zion noun.1 phr. Definition of lion in US English: lion nounˈlaɪənˈlīən 1A large tawny-colored cat that lives in prides, found in Africa and northwestern India. The male has a flowing shaggy mane and takes little part in hunting, which is done cooperatively by the females. 狮子 Panthera leo, family Felidae Example sentencesExamples South Africa contributes about 30 percent of lions hunted in sub-Saharan Africa. The crowd roars like a lion in a cage. Male African lions perform this maneuver when they consort with a receptive female, herding her in the desired direction. Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years. There are springbok, wildebeest, red hartebeest, lion, leopard, cheetah and giraffe among others. Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity. For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers. Living with elephants and giraffes, and seeing lions hunt and kill, was fantastic. The zoo had received its three Asiatic lions just two years ago as part of a European endangered species programme. Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights. However, they sometimes reached the pinnacle of honor by killing lions on their own. She noticed an intricately carved, roaring lion's head was at the end of the banister. Three year-old male lions grow manes that vary in color from black to blond. Apparently they don't even have the delightful touch farm and lion enclosure anymore. Wild African lions roam free within ten minutes drive of the center of Nairobi, Kenya. In field experiments female lions tend to choose male partners with the darkest manes. A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool. The river has chiselled the mountain face, making it resemble a lion's paw. A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces. At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. Synonyms big cat 1.1 The lion as an emblem (e.g. of English or Scottish royalty) or as a charge in heraldry. 狮子纹章（如英格兰或苏格兰王室的徽记）；纹章上的狮子标记 Example sentencesExamples On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew. People filed by the coffin covered with the Queen Mother's personal standard which mixed the Royal Arms with the bows and lions of her own Bowes Lyon family. It was Italian, with a crest on it embroidered with three lions inside the shield with two more lions holding up the logo. It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark. He wanted a unique way to show his support for England and so he had the three lions emblem and St George's cross engraved on his false teeth. Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India. The ancient emblem for the nation was a lion holding a scimitar against a rising sun. In his 66 displays with the three lions proudly emblazoned on his chest he rarely put a foot wrong. They have two flags - the lion rampant and the saltire - but no national anthem. I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from. The Sri Lankan flag with the trademark lion embossed in the middle is flying high around the ring and every time a Sri Lankan batsman hits a boundary the roar from the crowd gets louder. Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I. Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin. There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf. In the very few crannies left behind are fleurs-de-lis, rampant lions, unicorns, dogs, and vases of flowers. This design is blazoned as ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or,’ and it is still the coat of arms of England today. Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys. Notice the maker's mark is missing and that the lion passant mark is eroded in a peculiar fashion not consistent with normal wear. The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings. When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs. 1.2the Lion The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo. 狮子星座 1.3 A brave or strong person. Example sentencesExamples It would have been easy to retire and fade back and let the new lions take charge, but this never crossed Al's mind. Rather, it's in betting on which young lion may take him out. Though this lion has the tendency to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is unrestrained in bed. Synonyms hero, man of courage, brave man, lionheart, lionhearted man 1.4 An influential or celebrated person. a literary lion Example sentencesExamples Tweedy Upper West Side literary lion teams up with Wall Street mogul to launch multimedia content ‘brand.’ That particular party was full of literary lions and George was in his element. The Advocate asked him to remember a fellow literary lion. It's the eagerly awaited second novel from the 28-year-old Foer, currently the hottest young literary lion around (he was the cover story of the Feb. 27 issue of the New York Times magazine). When he relates his one adult visit to her - he by then a rising literary lion, she a well-known poet - he recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean. J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become. Endre Farkas' invitation to celebrate literary lion Pablo Neruda's 100th birthday inspired a series of performative prose-poem vignettes, Proem Cards From Chile. Of Dawson's three literary lions, London has by far the greatest international reputation, especially among Europeans. In his time, novelist-playwright Bulwer-Lytton was one of England's literary lions, but his reputation did not survive into the 20th century. Scott was 15 or so, and Burns was 28, but already a literary lion. Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability. He's the son of ‘Black Jack’ Michelet, an overbearing literary lion on the scale of a Norman Mailer. He has been justly celebrated as a business lion - and the book reveals a certain beastliness. His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion. Maybe just the act of posting a novel in a forum where bored Babus can read it and slam it will be enough to awaken the sleeping literary lion in aspiring novelists. Even bigger if you add that he's working with a major publisher and that literary lion Kurt Vonnegut calls the book ‘… nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war…‘ The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing her. Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print. Soon he was to move on to London and celebrity, becoming a literary lion of the metropolis of the Nineties. Is Tim trying to hold off the emerging influence of a young leftie lion? Authors sit in the green room waiting to go on, literary lions about to be eaten by library Christians. He does not ignore the psychological complexities of Ellison, who was not the drab, neutered literary lion some critics made him out to be. A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences. Synonyms celebrity, person of note, dignitary, notable, vip, personality, public figure, celebutante, pillar of society, luminary 2A member of a Lions Club. 狮子俱乐部成员 Example sentencesExamples He was a Lion, who joined in 1975 and became the first Secretary of the Virgin Gorda Lions Club. Phrases throw someone to the lions Cause someone to be in an extremely dangerous or unpleasant situation. 使某人处于险境（或困境） Example sentencesExamples If they'll agree not to throw us to the lions we promise not to provide any more fodder for bad movies. Everyone there reckoned the BBC were throwing him to the lions, but he waltzed through it and has gone from strength to strength ever since. Whatever it was, suddenly she had been thrown to the lions. When he misled Downing Street, Campbell the gladiator was instrumental in throwing him to the lions. I am willing to give it a shot by throwing him to the lions and asking him what he prefers afterwards. ‘The third,’ Reilly said, ‘are like Nero, who would throw us to the lions any chance they got.’ She believes that David was treated roughly by those who threw him to the lions, with little advice or guidance. Maybe Claudio would be better off breaking free from the Roman Empire before he is thrown to the lions. Hey, at least we're not throwing them to the lions. The king wants you alive so he can throw you to the lions. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French liun, from Latin leo, leon-, from Greek leōn, leont-. noun.1 phr.
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