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单词 zebra
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Examples from literature
  • A zebra baby can walk about 15 minutes after it’s born.
  • Although scientists don’t yet know the exact reason for the pattern, one theory is that when many zebras run together in a group, they make a pattern which is visually confusing.
  • Another theory suggests that zebra stripes are actually very effective in hiding the animal in long grass because lions are in fact colorblind!
  • But baby zebras can run and stay near their mother and the other adult zebras.
  • It looks like a kind of horse or zebra, but it’s not related to either of them.
  • Lions love to eat baby zebras.
  • So, a zebra’s stripes help it to survive.
  • This makes it difficult for predators, such as lions, to identify one zebra to attack.
  • Zebras have black and white stripes.

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For example, the wordzebrais quite low frequency.
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As car ownership grew, it was clear that thezebracrossing could not cope with congested urban traffic.
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The younger children had some difficulty with colour-based compounds, such aszebra-shells.
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While the hunting grounds differ between these groups, the targeted species are the same; wildebeest is the major species, followed by gazelle,zebra, and topi.
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Finally, children produced utterances such aszebra-shells only for objects that did in fact have a notable resemblance.
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On naming a giraffe as azebra: picture naming errors across different categories.
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The reported species are wildebeest,zebra, gazelle, topi, and impala.
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For example, nozebraappears in the picture ofzebra-shells.
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The children had to look at the stripes and recall that some animal had stripes like that, and that it was called azebra.
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The analogy referenced in the introduction was that of a child who hears and maps the word 'zebra' to the striped animal in the zoo.
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Interestingly, azebrawas identified as intermediate host for the cattle strain.
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Other wildlife found are the wildebeest,zebra, buffalo, sitatunga, crocodile and hippopotamus.
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They could represent any one of a number of antelope species,zebra, wild dog or jackal : it is hard to judge.
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Obviously, this functionalist explanation is not satisfactor y as the final word as to why azebrahas its stripes.
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Metaphorically, these items can be labelledzebra-shells or carrot-crayon.
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