caterpillar
英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]
美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]
n. 毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)
复数：caterpillars
Collins.1 / BNC.10524 / COCA.13163
牛津词典
noun
- 毛虫，蠋（蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫）
a small creature like a worm with legs, that develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insects with large, sometimes brightly coloured, wings). Caterpillars eat the leaves of plants.
柯林斯词典
- 毛虫
Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
英英释义
noun
- a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
双语例句
- 'Not a bit,'said the Caterpillar.
“我瞧不出。”毛毛虫说。 - The Caterpillar was the first to speak.'What size do you want to be?
毛毛虫首先开腔了：你想变成多么大小呢？ - A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。 - The results showed that the JDS-CPV has higher virulence to pine caterpillar.
证实JDS-CPV对我国马尾松毛虫有较好的毒力。 - And, we tell how one kind of caterpillar can trick another insect.
最后我们会说说有一种毛毛虫如何欺骗另一种昆虫。 - The little bird is in love, the ants live together, the fly is pregnant, and the mosquito has a miscarriage, the butterfly divorces, the caterpillar remarries.
小鸟恋爱了，蚂蚁同居了，苍蝇怀孕了，蚊子流产了，蝴蝶离婚了，毛毛虫子改嫁了。 - After a few weeks, the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.
几周之之后，毛虫从茧里面出来了。 - A caterpillar's dream to fly.
一个梦想飞翔的毛虫。 - I know it would be a mistake for Caterpillar workers to do that.
我知道这将是一个错误的毛虫工作者去做。 - I used to watch the whole process from caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly.
我通常观察蝴蝶的整个生命过程&从毛虫变成蛹再变成蝴蝶。