grasshopper
grasshopper 英 [ˈgrɑ:shɒpə(r)] 美 [ˈgræshɑpə(r)]
n. 蚱蜢；
名词复数:grasshoppers
- Grasshoppers are chirping insects that hop. A grasshopper can use its long legs to leap up to 20 times its own body length — that's pretty impressive for a bug!
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- n. 蚱蜢；
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1. a green grasshopper.
一个绿色 的蚱蜢
- grasshopper (n.) popular name of insects with hind legs suited to jumping, mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c. 1200), from Old English gærshoppa; see grass + hopper (n.1). Similar formation in Middle Swedish gräshoppare, German Grashüpfer. As a term of reproach, from Ecclesiastes xii.5. Also recorded c. 1300 as a name for the hare.
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