單詞
spider-plant
英文詞源
- spider-plant (n.)
- 1823, said to have been discovered on the coast of the Pacific northwest of North America during Cook's third expedition and so-named by the sailors, "from its striking resemblance to a large spider when it first appears above the surface, before the stem begins to rise from the spherical arrangement of the leaves, or the flagellae begin to creep to any distance from among them to the soil around" [Peter Sutherland, "Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay," 1852]; from spider + plant (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.
- 蜘蛛必須等待獵物被它的蛛網(wǎng)困住。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
- 絨毛蛛猴是美洲最大的靈長類動物。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. the geometry of a spider's web
- 蜘蛛網(wǎng)的幾何形狀
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. to be caught in a spider's web of confusion
- 陷入混亂不堪的局面
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. A spider had spun a perfect web outside the window.
- 蜘蛛在窗外結(jié)了一張完整的網(wǎng)。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
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