The greeks made up that word and it means " river horse."

这个词是希腊人创造的，意思是“河上的马”。

Equine therapy is also called hippotherapy — which makes sense if you know that " hippopotamus" translates to " river horse."

马疗法也称为河马疗法，因为“hippopotamus”的意思就是“河马”。

The mighty hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal following the elephant and rhinoceros. Its name is derived from the ancient Greek for river horse.

庞大的河马是仅次于大象和犀牛的第三大陆生哺乳动物，其名字来源于古代希腊的河马。

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

古埃及人当初就是由于对烤朱鹭烧河马有种崇拜偶像似的偏爱，所以到今天你还在那些个金字塔，也就是他们那些巨大的烧烤房里看见这些动物的木乃伊。