英语单词 | beetle |
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英美音标 | 英 ['biːtl] 美 ['biːtl] |
中文释义 | n.甲虫;木槌;[纺]捶布机 v.快速移动;用木槌捶;突出 adj.突出的;显著的 |
英语例句 | (1) She screamed as she saw the beetle. (2) The beetle scurried away when I lifted the stone. (3) After work we all beetle off for a drink. (4) Editors beetled around the office. (5) A huge rock beetles into the water. |
中文例句 | (1) 看到甲虫,她尖叫起来。 (2) 我把石头搬起来时,那只甲虫跑了。 (3) 下班之后我们都急忙赶去喝几杯。 (4) 编辑们在办公室里忙得团团转。 (5) 一块巨石突出来伸入水中。 |
vocabulary简明 | A beetle is a dark, shiny, hard-shelled insect. Your garden-loving grandmother will be distressed when she discovers her prize roses are infested with hungry beetles. |
vocabulary扩展 | A beetle usually has pincers or a biting mouth in front and wings that are hard and protective, forming a kind of shell or armor over its body. There are around 400,000 different species of beetles, and they make up a quarter of all known animals. The beetles people are most familiar with are garden pests, nibbling on plants and flowers. The Old English word for beetle, bitela, literally means "little biter." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]甲虫 A beetle is an insect with a hard covering to its body. |
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