英语词汇squish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	squish
词源	squish. A cross between a squid and a shark. This imaginary animal can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum, where there is a permanent exhibit of 27 paint- ings of animals that might be found someday in outer space—a kind of zoo of the future based on educated guesses. Other such animals are the great filter bat, a 150-pound flying rodent, and the bandersnatch, a 10,000-pound centipede whose name was coined by Lewis Carroll.
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