英语词汇“bug-hunt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bug-hunt v. colloquial intransitive (a) to search for and remove or kill insects or other bugs (now rare); (b) to search for or collect insects or other bugs (sense 1), esp. as entomological specimens.

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1801 Farther Excursions of Observant Pedestrian IV. 234 She assured me she was terrible busy bug-hunting.

1901 A. B. Wylde Mod. Abyssinia xiv. 324 At about midnight we both turned out and sat over a fire in the courtyard and took off our things and bug-hunted; we managed to rid ourselves of them.

1901 C. W. Stubbs In Minister Garden iii. 29 I hear there are a good many rare fen plants still to be found there,..and you can grub about and bug-hunt to your heart's content.

1936 D. Malone Last Landfall iii. viii. 261 Your usual morning employment was bug-hunting. This was carried out incessantly, both by day and night.

1957 Times 30 Oct. 11/4 Should we, however zealously we may have bug hunted, do as well as that Thames lighterman who answered a six part question on the Glanville fritillary butterfly?

2010 C. Alt Virginia Woolf & Study of Nature i. 31 Virginia bug-hunted with her siblings, netting butterflies, sugaring for moths, and setting specimens for display.

单词	bug-hunt
释义	> as lemmas bug-hunt bug-hunt v. colloquial intransitive (a) to search for and remove or kill insects or other bugs (now rare); (b) to search for or collect insects or other bugs (sense 1), esp. as entomological specimens. ΚΠ 1801 Farther Excursions of Observant Pedestrian IV. 234 She assured me she was terrible busy bug-hunting. 1901 A. B. Wylde Mod. Abyssinia xiv. 324 At about midnight we both turned out and sat over a fire in the courtyard and took off our things and bug-hunted; we managed to rid ourselves of them. 1901 C. W. Stubbs In Minister Garden iii. 29 I hear there are a good many rare fen plants still to be found there,..and you can grub about and bug-hunt to your heart's content. 1936 D. Malone Last Landfall iii. viii. 261 Your usual morning employment was bug-hunting. This was carried out incessantly, both by day and night. 1957 Times 30 Oct. 11/4 Should we, however zealously we may have bug hunted, do as well as that Thames lighterman who answered a six part question on the Glanville fritillary butterfly? 2010 C. Alt Virginia Woolf & Study of Nature i. 31 Virginia bug-hunted with her siblings, netting butterflies, sugaring for moths, and setting specimens for display. extracted from bugn.² < as lemmas
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