snail
英 [sneɪl] 美 [snel]

n.

蜗牛；慢性子；

变形

复数：snails

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C] 蜗牛 soft creature without bones or legs,but with a round shell on its back,which eats plants

英英释义

snail[ sneil ]

• n.
  • freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
  • edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

    同义词：escargot

• v.gather snails

  "We went snailing in the summer"

词组短语

snail mail蜗牛邮件；邮寄信件

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. She crumbled an empty snail shell in her fingers.
   她用手指捏碎了一个空蜗牛壳。
2. The shell of a snail is its skeleton.
   蜗牛的壳是它的骨骼。

权威例句

Snail, Zeb and bHLH factors in tumour progression: an alliance against the epithelial phenotype?
The Snail genes as inducers of cell movement and survival: implications in development and cancer
Stabilization of snail by NF-kappaB is required for inflammation-induced cell migration and invasion.
Small C-terminal Domain Phosphatase Enhances Snail Activity through Dephosphorylation
The transcription factor snail controls epithelial-mesenchymal transitions by repressing E-cadherin expression.
García De Herreros A. The transcription factor snail is a repressor of E-cadherin gene expression in epithelial tumour cells.
Host Diversity Begets Parasite Diversity: Bird Final Hosts and Trematodes in Snail Intermediate Hosts
Differential expression of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition regulators snail, SIP1, and twist in gastric cancer
Transmission of Schistosoma mansoni from man to snail: laboratory studies on the influence of snail and miracidial densities on tran...
Transmission of Schistosoma mansoni from man to snail: experimental studies of miracidial survival and infectivity in relation to la...