caterpillars

英 [ˈkætəpɪləz]

美 [ˈkætəˌpɪlərz]

n.  毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)
caterpillar的复数

柯林斯词典

• 毛虫
  Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.

双语例句

• The Saturday Caterpillars have now finished the Bear books and are beginning to read other picture books.
  周六的毛毛虫班已完成了比尔熊系列书，准备开始读其他的绘本了。
• Bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects.
  有刚毛的苍蝇，其幼虫寄生在毛虫或其它昆虫的身上；在控制有害昆虫方面很重要。
• Moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars.
  其幼虫为帐篷毛虫的蛾子。
• The caterpillars tunnel into the fruit to grow and mature.
  毛虫钻入果实，并在其中生长为成虫。
• In the real world, some caterpillars and plants engage in a deadly struggle for survival.
  在现实中，毛毛虫和植物为求生存而殊死搏斗，而全面战争肯定少不了化学武器。
• Caterpillars turned into butterflies.
  毛虫会变成蝴蝶。
• They said pregnant horses may have gotten the cyanide by eating the leaves from the cherry trees or the caterpillars.
  他们说怀孕的马匹有可能食用了樱桃树叶或毛虫而获得了氰化物。
• The chicks/ caterpillars/ grubs have hatched (` out).
  小鸡[毛虫/小蛆]孵出来了。
• Any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls.
  多种蛾子的毛虫，破坏棉荚。
• Caterpillars really freak me out, especially they have fuzzes.
  我真的很讨厌毛毛虫，尤其是有毛的那种。