weevil
weevil 英 ['wiːv(ə)l;'wiːvɪl] 美 ['wivl]
n. [昆] 象鼻虫
名词复数:weevils
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- n. [昆] 象鼻虫
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1. Humans turn a screw to make it move along its length, but the weevil's muscles pull along the length of its leg to make it turn.
人类旋转螺丝使其前进，而象鼻虫的肌肉沿着腿的方向牵拉，使其旋转。
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2. The hoax included the claim that because of a mild winter and the elimination of the "dreaded spaghetti weevil," Swiss farmers were experiencing a highly successful "spaghetti crop.
“全景图”宣传，由于冬季气温暖和，恐怖的象鼻虫已经消灭，瑞士农民正沉浸在面条大丰收的喜悦之中。
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3. In 1993, Cano worked with Poinar and others to remove DNA from a 125 million-year-old Lebanese weevil entombed in amber.
1993年，卡诺曾与坡因纳尔以及其他人一道，试图从琥珀中一只一亿两千五百万年前的象鼻虫体内提取DNA标本。
- weevil (n.) Old English wifel "small beetle," from Proto-Germanic *webilaz (source also of Old Saxon wibil, Old High German wibil, German Wiebel "beetle, chafer," Old Norse tordyfill "dung beetle"), cognate with Lithuanian vabalas "beetle," from PIE root *webh- "to weave," also "to move quickly" (see weave (v.)). The sense gradually narrowed by 15c. to a particular kind of beetle that, in larval or adult stages, bores into plants, often destroying them.
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