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hornet

/hawr-nit/US // ˈhɔr nɪt //UK // (ˈhɔːnɪt) //

大黄蜂,胡蜂,马蜂,大马士革

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata, of North America.

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Examples

  • A writhing ball of bees “cooks” or smothers a hornet to death, says Mattila.

  • She wanted to know whether I’d figured out how to make our little patch of Amandola a no-fly zone for hornets.

  • Inside a walk-in cooler, where the cold temperatures stunted the insects’ mobility, the scientists cracked the tree open with a sledgehammer and collected hornets at various stages of life.

  • That hornet spread at an average rate of about 100 kilometers per year.

  • He’s a hornet specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

  • Pulling engineers from the Super Hornet program then led to a maintenance backlog on that program too, sources said.

  • The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps also use the supersonic F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter to guide other jets to their targets.

  • Was The Green Hornet an example of a Hollywood film where you lost your power in the editing room?

  • But that's abstract enough to allow people to read into it what they will and avoid the hornet's nest of contemporary politics.

  • With his chunky-to-hunky transformation into the Green Hornet, the Rogenator, pretty surprisingly, is no exception.

  • But after it all, he asked me to marry him, and was as mad as a hornet, and said dreadful things to me when I refused him.

  • War broke out soon afterward and he became an officer on the Hornet, though still only a boy.

  • Do you know how a hornet behaves when a mischievous boy throws a stone at its nest?

  • When the Constitution went south to Brazil at that time the Hornet went with her, but they soon parted.

  • The Chesapeake was taken in just fifteen minutes, one minute more than the Hornet had taken to capture the Peacock.

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