spider

• n. 蜘蛛；设圈套者；三脚架

来自古英语 spider,蜘蛛， 来自 Proto-Germanic*spin, 纺织， 来自 PIE*spen, 纺织， 词源同 spin,spindle.-der,-ther,工具格后缀，词源同 rudder,tether.因蜘蛛善织网而得名。

1. predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

3. a skillet made of cast iron

spider

spider: [OE] The spider is etymologically the ‘spinner’. Its name goes back to a primitive Old English *spinthron, a derivative of the verb spinnan ‘spin’. The inspiration is the same, and much more obvious, behind other Germanic words for ‘spider’, such as German spinne, Dutch spinner, Swedish spindel, and Danish spinder.
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spider (n.)

late 14c., spydyr, from earlier spiþre, spiþur, spiþer (14c.), from Old English spiðra, from Proto-Germanic *spin-thron- (cognate with Danish spinder), literally "the spinner," from *spen-wo- "to spin" (see spin (v.)) + formative or agential *-thro. The connection with the root is more transparent in other Germanic cognates (such as Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, German spinne, Dutch spin "spider").

The male is commonly much smaller than the female, and in impregnating the female runs great risk of being devoured. The difference in sizes is as if the human female should be some 60 or 70 feet tall. [Century Dictionary]

Not the common word in Old English, which identified the creatures as loppe, lobbe, also atorcoppe, and, from Latin, renge. Another Old English word was gangewifre "a weaver as he goes," and Middle English had araine "spider" (14c.-15c., from French). In literature, often a figure of cunning, skill, and industry as well as poisonous predation; in 17c. English used figuratively for poisonousness and thread-spinning but also sensitivity (to vibrations), lurking, independence. As the name for a type of two-pack solitaire, it is attested from 1890. Spider crab is from 1710, used of various species; spider monkey is from 1764, so called for its long limbs.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

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This is the Berlin Olympic venue, is not like this spider web?

这里是柏林奥林匹克会场, 是不是像蜘蛛网 呢 ?

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A spider is weaving a web under the eaves.

蜘蛛在屋檐下织网.

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At the moment I'm working on a poisonous protein produced by the funnel spider.

现在我正在摆弄漏斗网蛛的一种毒蛋白.

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You're about to meet the spider equivalent of a stealthy jungle cat.

你将要看到的是相当于隐秘的丛林猫科动物的蜘蛛.

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There were a lot of spider webs in the corner of the room.

屋子的角落里挂了很多蜘蛛网.

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All of a sudden the spider stopped building and started removing the web.

突然蜘蛛停止建设,并开始在网上删除.

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The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider.

路仿佛没有尽头, 街道就象触足伸开的蜘蛛编织成的黑网.

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The red spider lilies spread unendingly. Day by day they more and more densely and sadly.

大片大片的曼珠沙华. 一天一天,它们越来悦澜浓烈,越来越悲伤.

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This paper describes technology process of stator frame and rotor spider for Wuq iangxi power station.

本文对五强溪机组的主要焊接部件定子机座和转子支架的制造工艺进行了论述,仅供参考.

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The spider spins its web.

蜘蛛结网.

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Reports of spider bites are greatly exaggerated.

有关蜘蛛螫人的报道被大大夸张了.

百科语句

My sister has a spider.

我的姊姊有一只蜘蛛.

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The spider hung suspended on its slender thread.

蜘蛛悬吊在它细长的丝上.

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A spider spins a web in which it catches insects and bugs for its food.

蜘蛛结网,用于捕捉各种昆虫.

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I found spider webs, bird nests, wildflowers, anthills, unusual rocks , eggshells and bizarre insects.

我找到蜘蛛网 、 鸟巢 、 野花 、 蚁丘 、 蛋壳和稀奇古怪的昆虫.

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Q : Can I control the crawler request rate from Ask spider to my site?

我能控制爬虫请求率从问蜘蛛到我的地点 吗 ?

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We passed silver birches , a huge spider statute, and a marine time boat.

我们走过了一小片白桦林,巨大的蜘蛛雕塑, 和航海时代的木帆船.

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The spider can catch insects by cobweb.

蜘蛛能用蜘蛛网抓住昆虫.

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That caused it to higher and higher and become entangled in a spider web.

我担心它会一直被缠在蜘蛛网上,就拿了一个长柄扫把帮它摆脱蜘蛛网.

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A spider was on the ceiling.

冬天花板上有只蜘蛛.

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Artificial spider - web is a network topology framework, which is proposed based on behavior research of spiders.

人工蜘蛛网络是源于蜘蛛结网捕食的行为研究提出的一种网络拓扑结构.

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A spider had spun a perfect web outside the window.

蜘蛛在窗外结了一张完整的网。

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The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.

蜘蛛必须等待猎物被它的蛛网困住。

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The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.

绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。

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