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单词 centaur
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  • For instance, the fable of the centaur was invented to show, by the union of man and horse, the swiftness of human life.
  • She imagined a determined Hungarian prairie, over which dashed disordered centaurs brandishing clubs, driving before them a band of satyrs and leaping fauns.
  • The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast.
  • The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs.

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The sheep-goat has already shown us the possibilities opening up of human-animal fusion; the mythologicalcentaurbegins to become an awful potential reality.
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A teaching hospital is in fact like acentaur; it cannot be adequately fed on a diet which consists of nothing but oats.
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A teaching hospital is a beast a little like acentaur.
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It is a sham or acentaur, but, whatever it is, it is not coherent and satisfactory.
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Pictorially, it is a kind ofcentaur.
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During acentaurshow, the king was badly injured and left partially paralyzed and bed-ridden.
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All the other centaurs were up in a moment, straddling women and boys.
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The school's colors are blue and silver, and the mascot is thecentaur.
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Centaurs have short dynamical lives due to strong interactions with the giant planets.
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Chiron is also acentaur; other centaurs are being observed for signs of a cometary coma.
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Wirance can't stop it and thecentaurwarriors can't hurt it.
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Centaurdesign philosophy was always centered around sufficient performance for tasks that its target market demands.
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When a fight breaks out, the centaurs seize the chance to cause some more damage.
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As she looks into the dark water, acentaurappears whose human and animal parts supposedly symbolize the duality of spirit and body.
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Thecentaurgoes out to rescue the mermaid and eventually finds her in the grasp of a giant squid.
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