caterpillar['kætәpilә]
汉语翻译
n. 毛虫
【机】 履带车
英语解释
名词 caterpillar:
- a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
- a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work同义词:cat
例句
- A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。
- Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft, elongated body.幼虫几种爬行昆虫幼虫的一种,如蛆或毛毛虫,有柔软的,细长的身体
- A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
- The ugly caterpillar will change into a beautiful butterfly.丑陋的毛虫会变成美丽的蝴蝶。
详细解释
cat.er.pil.lar
n.(名词)The wormlike, often brightly colored, hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.毛虫:蝴蝶或蛾子的蠕虫状,多为浅颜色的多毛或带刺的幼虫Any of various insect larvae similar to those of the butterfly or moth.毛虫:任何一种类似于蝴蝶或蛾子幼虫的各类昆虫的幼虫
来源:Middle English
catirpel, catirpeller 中古英语
catirpel, catirpeller probably alteration of Old North French
*catepelose 可能为 古法国北方方言
*catepelose的变化 cate [cat] from Latin
cattus cate [猫] 源自 拉丁语
cattus pelose [hairy] from Latin
pilôsus * see
pilose pelose [多毛的] 源自 拉丁语
pilôsus *参见
pilose<注释>It seems that the larvae of moths and butterflies are popularly seen as resembling other, larger animals.Consider the Italian dialect word
gatta, .cat, caterpillar.; the German dialect term
tüfelskatz, .caterpillar. (literally .devil`s cat.); the French word
chenille, .caterpillar. (from a Vulgar Latin diminutive,
.canocula, of
canis, .dog.); and last but not least,our own word
caterpillar, which appears probably to have come through Northern French from the Old French term
chatepelose, meaning literally .hairy cat..Our word
caterpillar is first recorded in English in 440 in the form
catyrpel. Catyr, the first part of
catyrpel, may indicate the existence of an English word
.cater, meaning .tomcat,.otherwise attested only in
caterwaul. Cater would be cognate with Middle High German
kater and Dutch
kater. The latter part of
catyrpel seems to have become associated with the word
piller, .plunderer.. By giving the variant spelling -
ar, Johnson`s
Dictionary set the spelling
caterpillar with which we are familiar today. 似乎蛾子和蝴蝶的幼虫经常会被看成与其它较大动物相似。意大利方言中
gatta, 一字,.猫,毛虫.; 日耳曼方言中
tüfelskatz 一字.毛虫.(直译为.邪恶的猫.); 法语词
chenille, .毛虫.(来自民间拉丁语小词缀,
canicula, 源自
canis ,是.狗.的意思); 最后但并非不重要的一点,英语中
caterpillar 一词, 可能是来源于从法国北部传来的古法语词汇
chatepelose, 字面意思是.多毛的猫.。
caterpillar 一字于440年最早记录在英语中, 以
catyrpel的形式出现。 Catyr是
catyrpel 的第一部分, 可能指明英语词
cater 的存在, 意指.雄猫.,否则只能存在于
caterwaul一词中。 Cater可能与中世纪高地德语
kater 和荷兰语
kater 有关。
catyrpel 一词的后一部分似乎与
piller 一词有关,意思是.强盗.。 约翰逊的
词典 给出了不同的拼写-
ar, 从而形成了我们今天所熟悉的
caterpillar 注释>