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词汇 Abominable Snowman
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Definition of Abominable Snowman in English:

Abominable Snowman

nounPlural Abominable Snowmen əˌbɒm(ə)nəb(ə)l ˈsnəʊmanəˈbɑm(ə)nəbəl ˈsnoʊˌmæn

  • A large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas.

    Also called yeti
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When flying, we wore heavy wool-lined flying gear, and Bernie looked like the Abominable Snowman when suited up.
    • The Himalaya has its Abominable Snowman, or the Yeti.
    • A Japanese expedition equipped with infrared cameras will scour the Nepali Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti, or Abominable Snowman.
    • Three years ago at Muirfield, in third-round conditions better suited to the Abominable Snowman than tournament golf, Woods shot himself out of contention with an 81.
    • Their logo is the famous footprint of the Abominable Snowman, not a figure commonly associated with tropical Calicut, but symbolic both of the leap of imagination they have undertaken and the ‘barefoot’ nature of their enterprise.

Origin

1920s: apparently a mistranslation of an alleged Tibetan name by a journalist interviewing members of a 1921 expedition to Mount Everest; the journalist reported the name as Tibetan metoh kangmi ‘filthy snowman’, whereas the first element was probably a combination of mi ‘person’ and dom ‘black bear’.

Definition of Abominable Snowman in US English:

Abominable Snowman

nounəˈbɑm(ə)nəbəl ˈsnoʊˌmæn

  • A large hairy creature resembling a human or bear, said to live in the highest part of the Himalayas.

    Also called yeti
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Himalaya has its Abominable Snowman, or the Yeti.
    • Their logo is the famous footprint of the Abominable Snowman, not a figure commonly associated with tropical Calicut, but symbolic both of the leap of imagination they have undertaken and the ‘barefoot’ nature of their enterprise.
    • A Japanese expedition equipped with infrared cameras will scour the Nepali Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti, or Abominable Snowman.
    • Three years ago at Muirfield, in third-round conditions better suited to the Abominable Snowman than tournament golf, Woods shot himself out of contention with an 81.
    • When flying, we wore heavy wool-lined flying gear, and Bernie looked like the Abominable Snowman when suited up.

Origin

1920s: apparently a mistranslation of an alleged Tibetan name by a journalist interviewing members of a 1921 expedition to Mount Everest; the journalist reported the name as Tibetan metoh kangmi ‘filthy snowman’, whereas the first element was probably a combination of mi ‘person’ and dom ‘black bear’.
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