1.〈俚〉河马
1.a hippopotamus
1.He had been a photojournalist then, charged with the unhappy task of filming the mating rituals of hippos.
之后他转职做了摄影记者，也就不得不去应付拍摄河马交配这样的苦差事。
2.There's hippos hanging out at a lake in Kenya, where a female apparently felt a boat of tourists was getting just a little too close.
肯尼亚一条河里有很多河马游动，当时正好一名女游客从船上掉进水里，离河马特别近。
3.The calf was kept away from the other hippos in the zoo for the first two weeks of her life, while she bonded with her mother.
才出生的前两周小家伙总是远离动物园里的其他河马，一直粘着她的妈妈。
4."It was a young one as it is much smaller than the other hippos and always stayed close to its mother, " said Will, 26.
岁的威尔说：“这只粉红色的小河马要比其他的河马要小，他总是躲在妈妈的后面。”
5.One of the only reasons you might see a conflict is if the hippos have young and they think the little ones are under threat.
如果你看见了争斗，其中的原因之一必定是河马有了小家伙，而且它们认为小家伙受到了鳄鱼的威胁。
6.We seem to have a lot of hippos around the house, I think both of my grandmothers had a thing for them.
家里好像有很多的河马。我觉得我的两位祖母都对它有某种喜爱。
7.This may help explain why hippo wounds rarely seem to get infected, even though Male hippos often fight.
这也解释了为什么雄性犀牛经常打斗，但却很少发现它们身上的伤口会感染。
8.Baby hippos are born underwater and must swim to the surface to take their first breath.
河马宝宝出生在水里，它必须游到水面进行生命第一次呼吸。
9.The island of hippos suddenly erupted with teeth and all I could see was the crocodile being repeatedly crushed in their huge mouths.
河马群突然亮出了牙齿，我所能看见的就是鳄鱼不断地被这些大嘴咬了又咬。
10.Nobody stayed to see the monkeys. And nobody stayed to see the seals, giraffes or hippos , either.
没有人想看猴子。也没有人想看海豹、长颈鹿、或河马。