Ant
[ænt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.
手打:洛葛仙妮--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
手打:特雷弗
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Pismire, emmet.
編輯:纽曼
解釋/意思:
n. a small insect: the emmet or pismire.—ns. Ant′-bear one of the largest species of the ant-eaters found in the swampy regions in Central and Southern America also called the Great Ant-eater; Ant′-cow (see Aphides); Ant′-eat′er a genus of edentate South American quadrupeds feeding on insects and chiefly on ants which they procure by means of their very long cylindrical tongue covered with a viscid saliva; Ant′-hill the hillock raised by ants to form their nest: also figuratively applied as to the earth; Ant′-thrush a general name applied to birds of tropical and sub-tropical countries which feed to a large extent on ants.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
The dreamer of ants should expect many petty annoyances during the day; chasing little worries, and finding general dissatisfaction in all things.
整理:瓦莱丽
例句/造句/用法:
- Huber to be a slave-making ant. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Certainly every time he came in contact with the industries--silk, wine, beer, wool--his scientific insight, Ant?us-like, seemed to revive. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to speculate how so wonderful an instinct could have been perfected. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This ant is absolutely dependent on its slaves; without their aid, the species would certainly become extinct in a single year. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Smith's offer of numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Once in camp I put a log on top of the fire and it was full of ants. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A few ants were in this desert place, but merely to spend the summer. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
整理:凯蒂