beetle

英 ['biːtl] 美 ['biːtl]

• n. 甲虫；木槌；[纺]捶布机
• v. 快速移动；用木槌捶；突出
• adj. 突出的；显著的

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]甲虫

   insect with hard,shiny wing-covers

英英释义

Noun:

1. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

2. 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

Adjective:

1. jutting or overhanging;

   "beetle brows"
   

Verb:

1. be suspended over or hang over;

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

2. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle;

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

3. beat with a beetle

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。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.
   我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫。

经典引文

• A blockhead, yea a numbskull, not to say a beetle.

  出自： A. Tucker

• A beetle-browed hag.

  出自： R. H. Barham

• The dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

  出自：Hamlet , Shakespeare

• His beetling brow almost obscured his eyes.

  出自： Dickens

• The justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head.

  出自： R. W. Emerson

• Thor's eyebrows beetled and the farmers..cowered.

  出自： K. Crossley

• 'What are you doing about two weeks from now?'..'Nothing in particular. Just beetling around.'

  出自： P. G. Wodehouse

• There was..a terrible scene..and Freda beetled off to America.

  出自： N. Coward

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

近反义词

【近义词】

• hurry 匆忙
• scurry 小步疾走
• scuttle 煤斗
• scoot 急走
• scud 疾驶
• dart 飞镖
• mallet 木槌
• beetling 突出的
• overhang 悬于 ... 之上...