Toad
[təʊd] or [tod]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.
整理:梅尔巴
解釋/意思:
n. a genus of amphibians typical of the family Bufonid represented in Britain by two species—the Common Toad and the Natterjack.—ns. Toad′-eat′er a fawning sycophant—originally a mountebank's assistant whose duty was to swallow or pretend to swallow any kind of garbage; Toad′-eat′ing sycophancy.—adj. sycophantic.—ns. Toad′-fish the sapo of the United States Atlantic coast; Toad′-flax a genus of herbaceous plants closely allied to the Snapdragon; Toad′-in-a-hole a piece of beef baked in batter; Toad′-spit cuckoo-spit.—adj. Toad′-spot′ted thickly stained or spotted like a toad.—ns. Toad′-stone a soft and earthy variety of trap-rock of a brownish-gray colour looking like an argillaceous deposit; Toad′stool a poisonous kind of mushroom; Toad′y a mean hanger-on and flatterer.—v.t. to fawn as a sycophant:—pa.t. and pa.p. toad′ied.—adj. Toad′yish.—n. Toad′yism the practice of a toady.
校對:梅勒妮
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of toads, signifies unfortunate adventures. If a woman, your good name is threatened with scandal. To kill a toad, foretells that your judgment will be harshly criticised. To put your hands on them, you will be instrumental in causing the downfall of a friend.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Not a black trance like the toad's, buried in marble; nor a long, slow death like yours in Briarfield rectory. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Now that you think me disqualified to become your husband, you recoil from my touch as if I were some toad or ape. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You're a sweltering toad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You are so ugly you would be jealous of a toad, the girl told him cheerfully. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you are indignant at their wrongs. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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