cocoon
cocoon 英 [kəˈku:n] 美 [kəˈkun]
n. 茧； vt. 把……紧紧包住
进行时:cocooning 过去式:cocooned 过去分词:cocooned 第三人称单数:cocoons 名词复数:cocoons
- A cocoon is a silky web spun around the larvae of many insects. Caterpillars emerge from their cocoons as beautiful butterflies.
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- n. 茧；
- vt. 把……紧紧包住
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1. Most worms cocoon in winter.
冬天多数虫子作茧.
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2. We were warm and safe, cocooned in our sleeping bags.
我们在睡袋里睡觉，暖和又安全。
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3. You cannot live in a cocoon and overlook these facts.
你不能自己缩在套子里而忽略这些事实。
- cocoon (n.) "sikly envelop which the larvae of many insects spin as a covering while they are in the crysalis state," 1690s, from Middle French coucon (16c., Modern French cocon), from coque "clam shell, egg shell, nut shell," from Old French coque "shell," from Latin coccum "berry," from Greek kokkos "berry, seed" (see cocco-). The sense of "one's interior comfort place" is from 1986. Also see -oon.
- cocoon (v.) 1850, of insects, "to form a cocoon," from cocoon (n.). Figurative use, in reference to persons bundled up or wrapped up in anything, 1873. Modern sense "to stay inside and be inactive" is from 1986. Related: Cocooned; cocooning.
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