caterpillar
英 ['kætəpɪlə]
美['kætɚpɪlɚ]
- n. [无脊椎] 毛虫；履带车
- adj. 有履带装置的
词态变化
复数: caterpillars;
助记提示
1. Etymologically, a caterpillar is a 'hairy cat'.
2. 由于毛毛虫很像坦克的履带，所以 caterpillar 既表毛毛虫，又表履带、链轨。
2. 由于毛毛虫很像坦克的履带，所以 caterpillar 既表毛毛虫，又表履带、链轨。
中文词源
caterpillar 毛虫
cat, 猫。-pil, 毛，词源同peel, depilatory(脱毛)。因其毛如猫毛而得名。
英英释意
- 1. a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
英文词源
- caterpillar
- caterpillar: [15] Etymologically, a caterpillar is a ‘hairy cat’. The word comes ultimately from late Latin *catta pilōsa: catta is the source of English cat, while pilōsus ‘hairy’ is a derivative of Latin pilus ‘hair’, from which English gets pile of a carpet. In Old French *catta pilōsa became chatepelose, which passed into English as catyrpel.
The present-day form arose in the 16th century, probably from association with the now obsolete piller ‘plunderer’ (related to English pillage) – caterpillars being regarded, of course, as plunderers of leaves. The notion that caterpillars resemble small furry mammals is also reflected in such names as pussmoth and woolly bear.
=> cat, pile - caterpillar (n.)
- mid-15c., catyrpel, probably altered (by association with Middle English piller "plunderer;" see pillage) from Old North French caterpilose "caterpillar" (Old French chatepelose), literally "shaggy cat" (probably in reference to the "wooly-bear" variety), from Late Latin catta pilosa, from catta "cat" (see cat (n.)) + pilosus "hairy, shaggy, covered with hair," from pilus "hair" (see pile (n.3)). Compare also French chenille "caterpillar," literally "little dog." A Swiss German name for it is teufelskatz "devil's cat." "The caterpillar has in many idioms received the name of other animals" [Kitchin, who cites also Milanese cagnon "little dog," Italian dialectal gattola "little cat," Kentish hop-dog, hop-cat, Portuguese lagarta "lizard." Compare also American English wooly-bear for the hairy variety. An Old English name for it was cawelworm "cole-worm." Caterpillar tractor is from 1908.
考试真题
- She made other mistakes in Metamorphasis Insectorum Surinamensium as well: not every caterpillar and butterfly matched.
2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
实用场景例句
- The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a butterfly.
- 毛毛虫最终将蜕变成一只蝴蝶。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly
- 从毛毛虫到蝴蝶的蜕变
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.
- 蝴蝶是由毛虫脱胎变成的.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The caterpillar was transformed into a butterfly.
- 毛毛虫变成了蝴蝶.
《简明英汉词典》
- The caterpillar has metamorphosed into a butterfly.
- 蝎已变成蝴蝶.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- In some sense, you could say that the caterpillar dies.
- 从某种意义上来说，你也可以说，毛虫死了。
辞典例句
- I think a caterpillar bit me!
- 想来是毛毛虫刺了我一下. ”
汉英文学 - 春蚕
- A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.
- 毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶.
辞典例句
- A caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly.
- 毛虫变成蝴蝶.
辞典例句
- A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
- 毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体.
辞典例句
- Nature transforms a caterpillar into a butterfly.
- 大自然使毛虫变为蝴蝶.
辞典例句
- The caterpillar turned into butterfly.
- 毛虫变成了蝴蝶.
辞典例句
- A mountain range shown by this method can look like a hairy caterpillar.
- 采用这种方法表示的山脉看上去象一条毛虫.
辞典例句
- The caterpillar began to run about in circles and then flopped over on its back.
- 毛虫开始乱跳,转了几圈,便扑地摔了个脸朝天.
辞典例句
- Peculiarities in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage.
- 蚕体的性状,亦限于相当的幼虫期或蛹期出现.
辞典例句