Insect
['ɪnsekt] or ['ɪnsɛkt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
錄入:内丽
例句/造句/用法:
- Begone, vile insect! 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- But he saw none here, only an insect-like repulsiveness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The silent being who thus occupied himself seemed to be of no more account in life than an insect. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- An insect like a dragon fly is shown. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell is cracked. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Fabre, as an active, minute insect, furnished with six legs, two long antennae, and four eyes. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The airs these little insect Governments put on are in the last degree ridiculous. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But where his ruder blows could not penetrate, the fine, insinuating blade of Loerke's insect-like comprehension could. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- As he looked a trout rose for some insect and made a circle on the surface close to where the chip was turning. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost that the insect has been described as not having them. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Another insect, it is said, produces the cochineal, from whence we have our rich scarlet dye. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Among insects there are innumerable instances; thus Linnaeus, misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect as a moth. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Various methods were resorted to in order to keep mold and insects from spoiling the product. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Your observations on what you have lately read concerning insects is very just and solid. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Bumble was meditating; it might be that the insects brought to mind, some painful passage in his own past life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The quiet in the house, and the low murmuring hum of summer insects outside the open window, soothed me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The archipelago, though not rich in insects, afforded several new genera, each island with its distinct kinds. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Now, it is scarcely possible for insects to fly from flower to flower, and not to carry pollen from one to the other, to the great good of the plant. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It is a noble staircase, and from a distance the people toiling up it looked like insects. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They have other kinds of insects, but it does not make them arrogant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The taste of the coffee, the insects, etc. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
整理:佩吉