Quadruped

(noun.) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking.

整理:贾丝廷

• Take the case of a carnivorous quadruped, of which the number that can be supported in any country has long ago arrived at its full average. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr. Wallace has also detected one such case with birds, but we have none with the larger quadrupeds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Quadrupeds have twice as many legs, run faster, and stand more firmly. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• For it would appear that climate has some direct action on the hair of our domestic quadrupeds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• On either side, the islands stand on a moderately shallow submarine bank, and these islands are inhabited by the same or by closely allied quadrupeds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• No geologist feels any difficulty in Great Britain possessing the same quadrupeds with the rest of Europe, for they were no doubt once united. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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