Grub
[grʌb] or [ɡrʌb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
(verb.) search about busily.
阿琳整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
(v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.
(v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
(n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
(n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
(n.) Victuals; food.
格里塔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Dig, eradicate, dig up, root up, root out, grub up.
v. n. Dig, be meanly employed.
n. [1]. Catterpillar, larva.[2]. [Colloquial.] Food.
克拉丽莎校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to dig in the dirt: to be occupied meanly: (slang) to eat.—v.t. to dig or root out of the ground (generally followed by up): (slang) to supply with victuals:—pr.p. grub′bing; pa.p. grubbed.—n. the larva of the beetle moth &c.: (slang) something to eat.—n. Grub′ber he who or that which grubs: an agricultural implement for grubbing out weeds &c. or for clearing and stirring up the soil with obliquely placed tines or teeth set in a frame and moved forward on wheels.—v.i. and v.t. Grub′ble to grope.—n. Grub′-street a street in London inhabited by booksellers' hacks and shabby writers generally.—adj. applied to any mean literary production.
加勒特錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Smelling the grub like a old lady a going to market! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It was a Christmas Eve, too; and I remember that on that very night he told us the story about the goblins that carried away old Gabriel Grub. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Gabriel Grub was paralysed, and could make no reply. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My grub-worm is always a straitened, struggling, care-worn tradesman. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Everything that Mr. Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But come,' said the young gentleman; 'you want grub, and you shall have it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The red-nosed man warn't by no means the sort of person you'd like to grub by contract, but he was nothin' to the shepherd. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He would have various grubs and insects, the large larv? of beetles and various caterpillars. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,' said Bella, looking at her father's hand and lightly slapping it, 'till he's not fit to be seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Fun forever, and no grubbing! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Curse the whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
阿奇校對