hibernate 的定义
hi·ber·nat·ed, hi·ber·nat·ing.
- Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals.Compare estivate.
- to withdraw or be in seclusion; retire.
- to winter in a place with a milder climate: Each winter finds us hibernating in Florida.
hibernate 近义词
lie dormant; sleep through cold weather
更多hibernate例句
- As of November 17, two locations are officially hibernating, ceasing operations entirely for the next few months and, hopefully, reopening when it’s safer and more profitable to serve customers again.
- You may be tempted to hibernate through the end of 2020 and beyond, but we’ve got a whole slew of books set in cold locations to keep you awake.
- To monitor the animals’ body chemistry, “I worked in dark, cold chambers — utterly quiet —surrounded by hibernating squirrels,” Rice says.
- That’s the coldest body temperature ever recorded in a bird or non-hibernating mammal.
- It’s been well known that infants and hibernating animals have brown fat.
- After these well-meaning moments they are left alone to hibernate with their own devastation.
- The insects frequently hibernate in warmed houses, and may bite during the winter.
- It is thought that kangaroo rats do not hibernate but remain more or less active throughout the winter.
- We cannot well believe that they hibernate, nor is the hypothesis of a sojourn in the middle strata of mid-ocean exactly tenable.
- In winter they hibernate like our squirrels, passing several months underground in a kind of slow and nearly motionless existence.
- The above facts proved that it was just at the season of the year when the bear was ready to hibernate.