Moth
[mɒθ] or [mɔθ]
解释:
(noun.) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae.
柏格编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A mote.
(n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
(n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
(n.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
(n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
安东录入
同义词及近义词：
n. (Ent.) Miller.
录入:雷蒙
解释:
n. a family of insects like butterflies seen mostly at night: the larva of this insect which gnaws cloth: that which eats away gradually and silently.—v.t. Moth′-eat to prey upon as a moth eats a garment.—adj. Moth′-eat′en eaten or cut by moths.—n. Moth′-hunt′er a little kind of swallow which hunts moths &c. called also the Goatsucker.—adj. Moth′y full of moths.—Death's-head moth (see Death).
整理:理查德
娱乐性解释：
To see a moth in a dream, small worries will lash you into hurried contracts, which will prove unsatisfactory. Quarrels of a domestic nature are prognosticated.
To dream of a white moth, foretells unavoidable sickness, though you will be tempted to accuse yourself or some other with wrong-doing, which you think causes the complaint. For a woman to see one flying around in the room at night, forebodes unrequited wishes and disposition which will effect the enjoyment of other people. To see a moth flying and finally settling upon something, or disappearing totally, foreshadows death of friends or relatives.
黛拉校对
娱乐性解释：
An unfortunate acquaintance who is always in the hole. And the only ones who try to get him out are his enemies.
整理:泰勒
例句:
- What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Among the more familiar products of coal tar or petroleum are moth balls, carbolic acid, benzine, vaseline, and paraffine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Whilst Wildeve had been preparing his moth-signal another person had come behind him up to the gate. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The moth roamed away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Securing one, he returned to the window, and holding the moth to the chink, opened his hand. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The poor moth, when writhing in torture of its own seeking, how often and how easily I have put at rest! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The moth made towards the candle upon Eustacia's table, hovered round it two or three times, and flew into the flame. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Among insects there are innumerable instances; thus Linnaeus, misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect as a moth. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Partly of that moth whose skeleton is getting burnt up in the wick of the candle, she said slowly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It was like strange moths, very soft and silent, settling on her from the darkness of her soul. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, replied Estella, with a glance towards him, hover about a lighted candle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Quatrefages states that the hybrids from two moths (Bombyx cynthia and arrindia) were proved in Paris to be fertile inter se for eight generations. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Measures were taken to select the seed of the heal thy moths and to destroy the others. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Wildeve contemplated her for a minute, and then retreating into the heath beat the ferns lightly, whereupon moths flew out alarmed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
校对:蒂米