单词：beetles
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
- She screamed as she saw the beetle.看到甲虫，她尖叫起来。
- The beetle scurried away when I lifted the stone.我把石头搬起来时，那只甲虫跑了。
- After work we all beetle off for a drink.下班之后我们都急忙赶去喝几杯。
- Editors beetled around the office.编辑们在办公室里忙得团团转。
- A huge rock beetles into the water.一块巨石突出来伸入水中。
常见句型
- 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
- black beetle黑甲虫；蟑螂
- 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. TuckerA beetle-browed hag.
出自：R. H. BarhamThe dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
出自：Hamlet,ShakespeareHis beetling brow almost obscured his eyes.
出自：DickensThe justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head.
出自：R. W. EmersonThor'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. WodehouseThere was..a terrible scene..and Freda beetled off to America.
出自：N. Coward
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