zoo

Word family

Related topics: Leisure

zoo /zuː/ S3 noun (plural zoos) [countableC]

DLHBAa place, usually in a city, where animals of many kinds are kept so that people can go to look at them 动物园 → wildlife park

Examples from the Corpus

zoo• There are four main aims of a zoo.• These do seem to admit of answers in terms of the working criteria of veterinarians, farm and abattoir inspectors and zoo managers.• At first, it all looked to me like a human zoo.• The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.• The grocery store was a real zoo today.• So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.• Thursday, the zoo began construction of an Avian Conservation Center.• C., which presented this one, a male, as a gift to the zoo and park.• Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos.

Origin zoo

(1800-1900) zoological garden

Chinese

Corpus

IELTS BNC: 6119 COCA: 6286

zoo

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + ZOO | ZOO + NOUN | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤petting (NAmE) 愛畜動物園

VERB + ZOO

➤go to, visit去動物園；參觀動物園

▸➤escape from從動物園逃出

ZOO + NOUN

➤animals動物園的動物

▸➤keeper (usually zookeeper) 動物園動物飼養員

PREPOSITION

➤at a/the zoo在動物園

◇We saw a baby polar bear at the zoo.我們在動物園看到一隻北極熊幼崽。

➤in a/the zoo在動物園裏

◇These lions were born in the zoo.這些獅子是在動物園出生的。

IELTS BNC: 6119 COCA: 6286

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