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a cannibal
cannibal 是可数名词，指食人的人。
The novel tells the story of a cannibal who lives alone in the forest.
这部小说讲述了一个独自住在森林里的食人者的故事。
食人者
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食人者
a person who eats human flesh
The novel tells the story of a cannibal who lives alone in the forest.
这部小说讲述了一个独自住在森林里的食人者的故事。
An organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who consumes human flesh.
The novel tells the story of a cannibal who lives alone on a remote island.
这部小说讲述了一个食人者独居在偏远海岛上的故事。
According to the legend, the tribe captured their enemies and ate them, so outsiders called them cannibals.
根据传说，这个部落俘虏敌人并吃掉他们，因此外人称他们为食人者。
Many people find it hard to believe that a cannibal could live quietly in a modern city.
许多人很难相信食人者能安静地生活在现代城市里。
cannibal 是可数名词，指食人的人。
The novel tells the story of a cannibal who lives alone in the forest.
这部小说讲述了一个独自住在森林里的食人者的故事。
复数形式可直接泛指一类人。
Cannibals are people who eat human flesh.
食人者就是吃人肉的人。
be a cannibal 用于描述某人的身份或属性。
No one believed that he was a cannibal.
没有人相信他是食人者。
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Cannibal is a person who eats people.
Use this
A cannibal is a person who eats people.
cannibal 是可数名词，单数可数名词作主语时前面必须加冠词（如 a 或 the）。中文常省略冠词，所以学习者容易漏掉；改为 A cannibal 后句子才符合英语语法。
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That cannibal eats human.
Use this
That cannibal eats humans.
human 作名词表示“人”时是可数名词，复数需要加 -s；中文里“吃人”的“人”没有单复数形式，学习者常照搬，但英语中 eats human 不成立，改为 eats humans 才正确。
Not this
Cannibals eats people.
Use this
Cannibals eat people.
主语 cannibals 是复数，谓语动词要用原形 eat，不能加第三人称单数的 -s。汉语动词没有这种单复数变化，容易误加 -s；改为 eat 后主谓一致。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
食人部落
The explorers were captured by a cannibal tribe.
探险者们被一个食人部落抓住了。
食人连环杀手
The movie is based on the story of a cannibal serial killer.
这部电影改编自一个食人连环杀手的故事。
食人宴
According to legend, the tribe held a cannibal feast after every battle.
传说中，这个部落在每次战斗后都会举行食人宴。
食人仪式
Some ancient cultures had cannibal rituals believed to absorb the power of the dead.
一些古代文化有食人仪式，人们相信这样可以吸收死者的力量。
我是一个食人者，我是一个食人者／我会把你吃掉，我会把你吃掉。——凯莎《Cannibal》
Kesha calls herself a cannibal in this hit song, using the word to describe an all-consuming love.
凯莎在这首热门歌曲中称自己是“食人者”，用这个词来形容一种吞噬一切的爱。
汉尼拔食人魔——电影《沉默的羔羊》中媒体给汉尼拔·莱克特医生的绰号。
In 'The Silence of the Lambs', the press calls Dr. Lecter 'Hannibal the Cannibal' because of his gruesome crimes.
在电影《沉默的羔羊》中，媒体因莱克特医生的可怕罪行而称他为“汉尼拔食人魔”。
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Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
发音近似 'can nibble'（能啃咬），想象食人者啃咬人肉的样子。
语域：neutral 常见场景：news reporting、historical/anthropological discussion、fiction and film 作为名词，cannibal 指以人肉为食的人，语气比较中性，通常出现在新闻报道、历史或人类学讨论，以及小说和影视等虚构作品中；日常口语中较少直接使用，而会换用更具体的说法。
No common word rhymes exactly with 'cannibal' (/ˈkænibəl/). 'Verbal' and 'tribal' match its final /bəl/ sound (spelled -bal after the suffix -al). 'Animal', 'capital', 'local', 'verbal', and 'tribal' share the unstressed -al spelling pronounced /əl/. 'Cannabis' looks similar in its first syllable but has a different ending and stress pattern: /ˈkænəbɪs/.
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