ant

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  • n.蚂蚁

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antant

noun

蚂蚁
a small insect that lives in highly organized groups. There are many types of ant .

an ants' nest

蚁窝

an ant colony

蚁群

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习语

ant

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    N-COUNT 蚂蚁
    Ants are small crawling insects that live in large groups.

    Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs.

    蚂蚁从地下成群地钻出来,爬满了她的鞋子和双腿。

noun

1
social insect living in organized colonies;characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season;wingless sterile females are the workers
Synonym: emmet pismire

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  1. His industry and persistence suggest that he was an ant in a previous incarnation .

    他的勤奋与坚持表明他前世是只蚂蚁。

  2. The ant is a social insect .

    蚂蚁是一种群居昆虫。

  3. An army of ants marched across the path .

    一大群蚂蚁浩浩荡荡地穿过小径。

  4. Ants scurried around the pile of rotting food .

    蚂蚁围着那堆腐烂的食物跑来跑去。

  5. The kitchen was infested with ants .

    厨房里到处是蚂蚁。

  6. Every so often the kitchen would be invaded by ants .

    厨房常常会遭到大批蚂蚁的进犯。

  7. The mild winter has created the ideal conditions for an ant population explosion .

    暖冬为蚁群数量激增创造了理想的条件。

  8. Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs .

    蚂蚁从地下成群地钻出来,爬满了她的鞋子和双腿。

  9. Out of beams and cracks came troops of beetles , ants and spiders .

    从横梁上和裂缝里爬出来了一群群甲虫、蚂蚁和蜘蛛。

  10. There is a clear division of labour in ants .

    蚂蚁间有明确的分工。

  11. Ants store up food against the winter .

    蚂蚁储存食物以防冬令。

  12. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke .

    千里之堤,溃于蚁穴。

  13. The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants .

    这棵死树根被蚂蚁唼了。

  14. Ants and flies are insects .

    蚂蚁和苍蝇都是昆虫。

  15. They make experiments with ants .

    他们用蚂蚁做实验。

  16. Even the lowly cricket and ant cling to life , let alone a human being .

    蝼蚁尚且偷生,何况人乎?

  17. She had ants in her pants ever since she won that ticket to bermuda .

    她自从赢得那张前往百慕大的机票后一直急于启程。

  18. He was waiting for the results of the elections , restless as an ant on a hot pan .

    他等着选举的结果,像热锅上的蚂蚁。

  19. Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young .

    梅里安注意到这些蚂蚁是如何把地下的叶子带给它们的幼蚁。

  20. In the same plate , Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time .

    在同一幅插图里,梅里安首次描绘了切叶蚁。

  21. But in the same drawing , she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants .

    但在冋一幅画中,她把行军蚁和切叶蚁错误地混在了一起。

  22. And she wouldn 't have known this at the time , but the ants use the leaves to farm fungi underground to feed their developing babies .

    她当时不可能知道这一点,蚂蚁使用树叶在地下种植菌类来喂养正在发育的幼蚁。

  23. Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders , ants building bridges with their bodies and other details .

    梅里安关于巨型食鸟蜘蛛、用身体搭桥的蚂蚁以及其他细节的描绘是正确的。

  24. " In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night , " she wrote in the description .

    “美国有一夜之间就能把整棵树啃得像扫帚柄一样光秃秃的大蚂蚁,”她在描述中写道。

  25. The Nature Conservancy has    declared   war on a multitude of invasive species here , from sheep to plants to the   aggressive   Argentine ant .

    美国大自然保护协会还向众多入侵物种发起了宣战,从羊群到植物再到具有攻击性的阿根廷蚁。

  26. The image , which also contained novel descriptions of ants , fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it .

    这幅画中还包含了对蚂蚁的新颖描述,它吸引了欧洲观众,他们更关心的是展现在他们面前的奇异故事,而不是绘制者的性别。

  27. There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide .

    世界上的蚂蚁数量十分庞大。

  28. In fact , when it comes to the art of war , ants have no equal .

    事实上,说起战术,蚂蚁是所向无敌的。

  29. For animals their size , ants have been astonishingly successful , largely due to their wonderful social behavior .

    对于体型如此之大的动物来说,蚂蚁取得了惊人的成功,这主要得益于它们出色的社交行为。

  30. When an ant finds food , it produces a pheromone that will lead others straight to where the food is .

    当蚂蚁找到食物时,它会产生一种信息素,这种信息素会直接引导其他蚂蚁找到食物。

  • 习语

n.

have ants in your pants

焦躁不安;坐立不安
to be very excited or impatient about sth and unable to stay still