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大卫·艾登堡

Dà wèi Ài dēng bǎodictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-2ab20306877543da. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

大衛·艾登堡 大卫·艾登堡 [Da4 wei4 Ai4 deng1 bao3] /David Attenborough (1926–), British naturalist and broadcaster/

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Other forms in these source records: 大衛·艾登堡

  • 大
    dà

    big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[dà jiě]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

    dài

    see 大夫[dài fu]

  • 卫
    wèi

    to guard / to protect / to defend / abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene / health / abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet

    Wèi

    surname Wei / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066–221 BC), located in present-day Henan and Hebei Provinces

  • 艾
    ài

    Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa / used in transliteration

    yì

    See the full entry for source details.

    Ài

    surname Ai

  • 登
    dēng

    to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)

  • 堡
    bǎo

    (bound form) fortress; stronghold / (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names) / (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[hàn bǎo])

    bǔ

    village (used in place names)

    pù

    used in place names

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.