caterpillar

英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]

美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]

n.  毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)

复数：caterpillars　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10524 / COCA.13163

牛津词典

noun

• 毛虫，蠋（蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫）
  a small creature like a worm with legs, that develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insects with large, sometimes brightly coloured, wings). Caterpillars eat the leaves of plants.

柯林斯词典

• 毛虫
  Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.

英英释义

noun

• a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

双语例句

• The little bird is in love, the ants live together, the fly is pregnant, and the mosquito has a miscarriage, the butterfly divorces, the caterpillar remarries.
  小鸟恋爱了，蚂蚁同居了，苍蝇怀孕了，蚊子流产了，蝴蝶离婚了，毛毛虫子改嫁了。
• A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
  毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
• I am a little caterpillar.
  我是一条小毛毛虫。
• After a few weeks, the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.
  几周之之后，毛虫从茧里面出来了。
• And, we tell how one kind of caterpillar can trick another insect.
  最后我们会说说有一种毛毛虫如何欺骗另一种昆虫。
• He was a big, fat caterpillar.
  它是一条胖嘟嘟的大毛虫了。
• ` Not a bit, 'said the Caterpillar.
  一点也不。毛毛虫说。
• A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
  毛虫变成了蝴蝶。
• I used to watch the whole process from caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly.
  我通常观察蝴蝶的整个生命过程&从毛虫变成蛹再变成蝴蝶。
• You are this caterpillar now;
  你们现在就是这只毛毛虫；