limpet
英 [ˈlɪmpɪt] 美 [ˈlɪmpɪt]

n.

帽贝，坚守岗位的职员；

变形

复数：limpets

英英释义

limpet[ 'limpit ]

• n.
  • mollusk with a low conical shell
  • any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The dog clung like a limpet to the thief.
   那条狗死死缠住小偷不放。
2. The Prime Minister clung to his job like a limpet, despite calls for him to resign.
   首相不顾有人要求他辞职，死赖在他的职位上不下台。
3. The next day in Majorca, a limpet bomb under a police vehicle killed two.
   翌日，马约卡岛的一辆警车被一枚水下爆破弹炸毁，造成两名警察身亡。

权威例句

Anaphylaxis due to limpet ingestion
A Limpet-Coralline Alga Association: Adaptations and Defenses Between a Selective Herbivore and its Prey
Chaotic genetic patchiness in an intertidal limpet, Siphonaria sp.
A continental scale evaluation of the role of limpet grazing on rocky shores
Habitat partitioning and thermal tolerance in a tropical limpet, Cellana grata
The Wahlund effect and the geographical scale of variation in the intertidal limpet Siphonaria sp.
Characterization of the multilayered shell of a limpet, Lottia kogamogai (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda), using SEM-EBSD and FIB-TEM t...
Pattern Beneath the Chaos: The Effect of Recruitment on Genetic Patchiness in an Intertidal Limpet
Phase 1 trial of immunological adjuvant QS-21 with a GM2 ganglioside-keyhole limpet haemocyanin conjugate vaccine in patients with m...
The First Historical Extinction of a Marine Invertebrate in an Ocean Basin: The Demise of the Eelgrass Limpet Lottia alveus