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caterpillar

/kat-uh-pil-er, kat-er-/US // ˈkæt əˌpɪl ər, ˈkæt ər- //UK // (ˈkætəˌpɪlə) //

虫草,虫子,虫豸,毛毛虫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the wormlike larva of a butterfly or a moth.
    • : a person who preys on others; extortioner.

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Examples

  • So far, the companies that have reported having shipments held up range from IKEA to heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar, potentially setting back building construction alongside home-improvement projects.

  • The answer was to give the boat retractable caterpillar treads so it can rumble down the beach and into the water without needing to be towed.

  • If there isn’t enough food from the one plant to feed several caterpillars, “they won’t make it,” he says.

  • Competition can be tough, he adds, because monarch caterpillars are limited in their food options.

  • More testing is needed to learn how the different pesticides affect a caterpillar or the adult butterfly, he cautions.

  • Nearby, a yellow Caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel.

  • Westport is also working with machinery giant Caterpillar on new locomotives.

  • Her father worked for Caterpillar and was a member of the United Auto Workers.

  • Caterpillar notched record profits in 2012 and then in early 2013 bludgeoned its unions into accepting a six-year wage freeze.

  • “I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money,” as Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman put it.

  • What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?

  • The man is as ugly as a caterpillar; but he has done me the most immense service a woman can receive from a man.

  • The caterpillar produces silk, though it is not equal to that of the better known silkworm.

  • Grimm has recorded that in old German, the caterpillar was named Alba, and that the Alp often takes the form of a butterfly.

  • Luther, taking up a caterpillar, said: "'Tis an emblem of the devil in its crawling, and bears his colours in its changing hue."