鹰头马身有翼兽

鷹頭馬身有翼獸

yīngtóumǎshēnyǒuyìshòu

noun

Measure Word

一头鹰头马身有翼兽 tóu

Meanings

1 hippogriff (a mythical beast with an eagle's head and a horse's body)

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Examples

鹰头马身有翼兽是欧洲中世纪传说中的神兽。

Yīngtóu mǎshēn yǒuyì shòu shì Ōuzhōu zhōngshìjì chuánshuō zhōng de shénshòu.

The hippogriff is a mythical beast from medieval European legend.

骑士们骑着鹰头马身有翼兽飞越群山。

Qíshìmen qí zhe yīngtóu mǎshēn yǒuyì shòu fēiyuè qúnshān.

The knights rode hippogriffs and flew over the mountain ranges.

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history

The hippogriff was popularized by Ariosto in 《疯狂的奥兰多》(Orlando Furioso, 1516), where the knight Ruggiero rides one. Ariosto invented it as an impossible hybrid — since griffins hunted horses, 'hippogriff' was a proverbial phrase for 'that which cannot exist', literalized.

In Pop Culture

哈利·波特 Hālì·Bōtè

Harry Potter

The hippogriff Buckbeak (巴克比克) is a memorable magical creature in Prisoner of Azkaban; Hagrid teaches students to approach it with a bow.

Stroke Order

鹰 yīng

头 tóu

马 mǎ

身 shēn

有 yǒu

翼 yì

兽 shòu