beetle
英 [ˈbi:tl] 美 [ˈbitl]

n.

甲壳虫；大槌；捶布机；

vt.& vi.

快速移动；用大槌捶打；

变形

复数：beetles过去式：beetled过去分词：beetled现在分词：beetling第三人称单数：beetles

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C]甲虫 insect with hard,shiny wing-covers

英英释义

beetle[ 'bi:tl ]

• n.
  • insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
  • a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

    同义词：mallet

• v.
  • be suspended over or hang over

    "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"

    同义词：overhang

  • fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

    "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"

  • beat with a beetle
• adj.jutting or overhanging

  "beetle brows"

  同义词：beetling

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)形容词+～

• black beetle黑甲虫；蟑螂

名词+～

• dung beetle屎壳郎
• death watch beetle报死窃蠹

词组短语

dung beetle n. 蜣螂；金龟子科；甲虫

ground beetle土鳖虫；步甲，步行虫

bark beetle树皮甲虫

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. She screamed as she saw the beetle.
   看到甲虫，她尖叫起来。
2. The beetle scurried away when I lifted the stone.
   我把石头搬起来时，那只甲虫跑了。

用作动词(v.)

1. After work we all beetle off for a drink.
   下班之后我们都急忙赶去喝几杯。
2. Editors beetled around the office.
   编辑们在办公室里忙得团团转。
3. A huge rock beetles into the water.
   一块巨石突出来伸入水中。

权威例句

Water capture by a desert beetle.
Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change
The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.
Carabid Beetle and Spider Assemblages along a Forested Urban–Rural Gradient in Southern Finland
Consortium TGS. The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum. Nature 452(7190)
Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Dung and Carrion Beetle Communities in Central Amazonia
Competitive Interactions among Symbiotic Fungi of the Southern Pine Beetle.
Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions
Effects of tree phytochemistry on the interactions among endophloedic fungi associated with the southern pine beetle.
Cross-scale drivers of natural disturbances prone to anthropogenic amplification: Dynamics of biome-wide bark beetle eruptions