locust
locust 英 [ˈləʊkəst] 美 [ˈloʊkəst]
n. [植保] 蝗虫，[昆] 蚱蜢
名词复数:locusts
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- n. [植保] 蝗虫，[昆] 蚱蜢
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1. There were millions of them around us – a locust sandstorm.
我们周围有数百万只蝗虫 – 一场蝗虫风暴。
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2. He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
把他们的土产交给蚂蚱，把他们辛苦得来的交给蝗虫。
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3. This involves transferring the skills of the 15, 000 household locust farmers in Thailand across the border.
这个项目涉及到转变跨边界的泰国境内15,000名家庭蝗虫养殖者的技能。
- locust (n.1) "grasshopper, large orthopterous insect noted for mass migrations accompanied by destructive ravages of vegetation," early 14c., borrowed earlier in Old French form languste (c. 1200), from Latin locusta "locust; lobster" (see lobster).
- locust (n.2) North American tree, used for ornament and lumber, 1630s, a transferred use (based on resemblance) from locust-tree "carob tree" (1610s), the fruit of which supposedly resembles the insect (see locust (n.1)). Greek akris "locust" often was applied in the Levant to carob pods. In U.S. from late 19c. policemen's clubs were famously made from locust wood (locust-club is attested from 1887).
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