音标:['biːt(ə)lz] ;
n. 甲虫( beetle的名词复数 )
n insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
n 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
v be suspended over or hang over
v fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
v beat with a beetle

beetle的用法和样例:

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。

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

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
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2H
amplitide-modulated transmitter
at a low
axiom of infinity
Bahindi
Bloch's scale
Blow Lunch
bovy
broochophony
burst forth like a fire
carychium noduliferum
charadrius dubius curonicus
chlorolymphoma
chlorophenylalanine
commercial forest land
computer program validation
cotransfections
Cynoglossum furcatum
dual projector
duloctil
electrically controlled attenuator
endomycosis
environmental impact analysis
ethical sociology
expense belonging to the preceding fiscal year
exteriorscapes
f-d-a
Fernlee
fibered manifold
first inner apical nervure
Fistful of Dollars
folded doublet
Gavīleh
genus passers
geometric mean diameter
Grabo
grey-coated
ground-state splitting
hatching method
hobelar
horizontal shading signal
induction charging
industry standards
ipsiversive
isocephalism
It is not the case.
lassaba hsuhonglini
left-handed cigarettes
linearity sector
liquid explosive drill
logatomes
long exposure
long-period average flow
louekoskis
low interest
low water flow
magnetic test coil
magneto-elastic load cell
marine dataset
mesh of grid
metallogenetic
minimoon
naked molten metal
Namburis
natural antitoxic immunity
neo-positivist epistemology
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optimum cutting speed
organotropism
outofround
oversea chinese commercial bank
penalty free throws
polypary
Porez
quadratic response
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rhytido-
road foreman of engines
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siliqua fasciata
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southbank
spell ... out
Stapledon
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suma
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tax colloector
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Tha Li
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Tricarico
tuyere arch
Undivided Account
Vaygach, Ostrov
wastebasket
watchful