lemmingnoun
旅鼠
a small animal like a mouse, that lives in cold northern countries. Sometimes large groups of lemmings migrate (= move from one place to another) in search of food. Many of them die on these journeys and there is a popular belief that lemmings kill themselves by jumping off cliffs .
Lemming-like we rushed into certain disaster.
我们像旅鼠一样忙不迭地投入灾难。
lemming
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N-COUNT 旅鼠
A lemming is an animal that looks like a large rat with thick fur. Lemmings live in cold northern regions and sometimes travel in very large numbers. -
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N-COUNT （如旅鼠般）盲目从众者，随大流者
If you say that a large group of people are acting like lemmings, you are critical of them because they all follow each other into an action without thinking about it.The French crowds pour like lemmings down the motorway to Paris.
一群群法国人像旅鼠一样涌上通往巴黎的高速公路。
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North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged .
冬季为白色皮毛且一些爪非常大的北美洲旅鼠。
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The soldiers continued their advance , possessed by some lemming like instinct for self-destruction .
士兵们持续他们的前进，像某些旅鼠自我毁灭的天性般著魔。
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The French crowds pour like lemmings down the motorway to Paris .
一群群法国人像旅鼠一样涌上通往巴黎的高速公路。
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Don 't just walk off the edge like lemmings .
别像老鼠逃跑似的。
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People rushed like lemmings to invest their money in the company that later went bankrupt .
人们都一窝蜂地把钱投资到这个不久就破产了的公司里去。
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Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters .
大多数小型新域啮齿动物包括新域鼠或旅鼠或田鼠或仓鼠。
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Everybody 's following her like lemmings over the precipice .
大家都像跳崖的旅鼠似地盲目追随她。
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Others , like their lemming prey ,
另一些像它们的猎物旅�
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Growth and development of the steppe lemming , Lagurus Lagurus
草原兔尾鼠的生长发育
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If , on the other hand , America is willing its decline , who are these lemmings exactly ?
另一方面，如果美国正主动促成自身的衰落，那么到底谁是那些旅鼠呢？
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From the millions of T-shirt and jeans lemmings out there .
有别与数百万个体恤牛仔佬。
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The Killing Effect of Five Rodenticides on Steppe Lemmings ( Lagurus lagurus ) in the Laboratory
实验条件下几种灭鼠剂对草原兔尾鼠的杀灭效果
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HR people are on the front line of the jobs market and they are also like lemmings – so , if they think suits are in , they are in .
人力资源经理身处职场一线，而且他们都像是旅鼠&因此，如果他们认为西服正当道，事实肯定如此。
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Then you have to say , Yeah , I know lemmings don 't actually commit suicide , but for the purposes of cartoons , they do .
之后你可以说，我知道了，旅鼠实际上是不会自杀的，不过为了漫画的效果，它们会了。
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Others , like their lemming prey , are here year around beneath the snow , insulated from the cold air above.The northern forests are across road for seasonal visitors and Arctic specialists .
而其他动物，就像其猎物一样，常年在雪下隔绝上面的冷空气。北方森林主要由季节性的游客和北极专家组成。
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Less deficit hawks than deficit lemmings , they seem perfectly prepared to bring the nation over the precipice in pursuit of spending cuts that would scare most Americans witless .
茶党与其说是主张削减赤字的鹰派，不如说是从众的旅鼠派：为了追求削减开支，他们似乎不惜将美国带下悬崖&这会吓坏大多数不明事理的美国人。
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This idea that somehow you do not support the troops if you do not continue , in a lemming like way , to accept whatever this administration 's policy is , that is what is wrong .
有些人认为如果你不再像一只旅鼠那样全盘接受政府所发布的所有政策，你就会反对增兵政策。这种想法本身就是错误的。
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But , as any Latin-speaking lemming could attest , simply chanting " defendit numerus " is all very well provided your numbers are heading in the right direction .
但正如任何说拉丁语的旅鼠都能证明的那样，如果你的数字朝着正确的方向前进，那么仅仅哼唱着defenditnumerus（译注：拉丁语，意为：数能保平安）就可以了。
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These might be anything from a field biologist 's notes of lemming populations on Spitzbergen to a physicist 's creation of muon tracks in a cloud chamber , or from a set of equations in the mathematical imagination to a vast computer model of the world 's climate .
在这本书中你将会看到野外生物学家对于斯匹茨卑根群岛上的旅鼠种群的阐述，物理学家在云室里创建的μ介子轨迹，利用数学概念思考出的一组方程式，以及巨型计算机模型中的全球气候。