beetle
beetle 英 [ˈbi:tl] 美 [ˈbitl]
vi. 急忙来回；突出 vt. 用槌打 n. 甲虫；大槌
进行时:beetling 过去式:beetled 过去分词:beetled 第三人称单数:beetles 名词复数:beetles
- A beetle is a dark, shiny, hard-shelled insect. Your garden-loving grandmother will be distressed when she discovers her prize roses are infested with hungry beetles.
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- vi. 急忙来回；突出
- vt. 用槌打
- n. 甲虫；大槌
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1. He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth.
他研究了纳米布甲虫，这是一种机灵的物种，生活在世界上最干燥的地方之一。
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2. With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.
它的生活地每年只有半英尺的降雨量，这种甲虫可以通过使用它背部具吸水性的皮肤在早晨收集的水露存活下来。
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3. While other bugs may change color due to external circumstances like temperature, the Panamanian tortoise beetle is one of the few creatures known to control its own color changing.
据了解，其他小虫可能是随着外部环境（如：气温）的变化而变色的，但巴拿马龟甲虫是可以控制自身颜色变化的少数动物之一。
- beetle (n.1) insect of the order Coleoptera, Old English bitela "beetle," apparently originally meaning "little biter, biting insect," from bitel "biting," from Proto-Germanic *bitan, from PIE root *bheid- "to split," with derivatives in Germanic referring to biting.
- beetle (n.2) "heavy wooden mallet used to drive wedges, pack earth, etc.," Old English bietl "mallet, hammer," from Proto-Germanic *bautilo-z, from *bautan "to beat," from PIE root *bhau- "to strike."
- beetle (v.) "project, overhang," apparently a Shakespearean back-formation (in "Hamlet," 1602) from bitelbrouwed "grim-browed, sullen" (mid-14c.), from bitel "sharp-edged, sharp" (c. 1200), probably a compound from Old English *bitol "biting, sharp" (related to bite (v.)), + brow, which in Middle English meant "eyebrow," not "forehead." Meaning "to overhang dangerously" (of cliffs, etc.) is from c. 1600. Related: Beetled; beetling.
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