女神殿

gargoyle

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【建】(多為怪獸像的) 滴水嘴
形象怪異的人

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–noun 
1. a grotesquely carved figure 
of 
a human or animal. 

2. a spout, terminating in a grotesque representation of a human or animal figure with open mouth, projecting from the gutter (排水溝) of a building for throwing rain water clear of a building. 

—Related forms
gargoyled, adjective


　
In a previous life, del Toro might have been a maker of clocks -- clocks inhabited by gargoyles instead of cuckoos, and which exploded on the hour. But there's a precision [to] the visual ornateness of "Hellboy II" 

that [exceeds] even [that] of its predecessor. 

It's certainly a more deliberately (and successfully) funny movie, thanks largely to the drily [ironic] Hellboy -- Ron Perlman, who returns with the rest of the cast, and with[out] whom an onscreen Hellboy would have been almost [un]thinkable.


bestiality menagerie
feral
reverted to the wild state, from domestication. a [pack] of feral [dogs] roaming the woods.  
ferrule
circular metal ring or casing placed over the wooden tip of an umbrella or cane
ferule
wooden ruler use to punish schoolchildren, figuratively, discipline

legume 豆科植物
vertebrate 脊椎動物
gill 腮
pectoral 胸鰭
Meager