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单词 insect
释义
insectin‧sect /ˈɪnsekt/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINinsect
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin insectum, from insecare ‘to cut into’; because insects have a body in separate parts
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects.
  • For bees and other insects, social life pays.
  • Horton picked the spider up, held it in his palm and asked if the insect was bothering anyone.
  • If your child becomes interested in insects, encourage her to focus on a particular insect.
  • Is there any reason to believe an insect may have crawled or flown into the ear?
  • Spurs occur on the legs of many insects and differ from setae in being of multicellular origin.
  • The Percys ate their peanuts one by one, patiently dislodging the insects.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a small creature such as a fly or ant, that has six legs, and sometimes wings: · Head lice are tiny insects that live in the hair.
a small insect: · What are those little bugs in my roses?
informal an insect, especially one that you are frightened of: · The mattress was covered in creepy-crawlies.
technical a small insect that lives on the juice of plants and destroys them: · The leaves have been attacked by aphids.
WORD SETS
abdomen, nounant, nounantenna, nounanthill, nounaphid, nounbedbug, nounbee, nounbeetle, nounblack widow, nounbloodsucker, nounblow-fly, nounbluebottle, nounboll weevil, nounbookworm, nounbug, nounbumblebee, nounbutterfly, nouncaterpillar, nouncell, nouncentipede, nounchrysalis, nouncicada, nouncobweb, nouncockchafer, nouncockroach, nouncocoon, nouncomb, nouncrane fly, nouncreepy-crawly, nouncricket, noundaddy longlegs, noundragonfly, noundrone, nounearwig, nounentomology, nounfeeler, nounfirefly, nounflea, nounfly, verbfly, nounfruit fly, noungadfly, nounglow-worm, noungnat, noungossamer, noungrasshopper, noungreenfly, noungrub, nounhoneybee, nounhoneycomb, nounhornet, nounhorsefly, nounhousefly, nouninsect, nouninsectivore, nounkatydid, nounladybird, nounlarva, nounlice, nounlightning bug, nounlocust, nounlouse, nounmaggot, nounmantis, nounmayfly, nounmidge, nounmillipede, nounmite, nounmosquito, nounmoth, nounnectar, nounnest, nounnit, nounnymph, nounpest, nounpod, nounpraying mantis, nounproboscis, nounpupa, nounqueen, nounroach, nounsand fly, nounscarab, nounsilkworm, nounsilverfish, nounspider, nounspin, verbstick insect, nounsting, verbsting, nounstinger, nounsucker, nounswarm, nounswarm, verbtarantula, nountermite, nounthorax, nountick, nountortoiseshell, nountrilobite, nountsetse fly, nountzetze fly, nounvein, nounverminous, adjectivewasp, nounwater bug, nounweb, nounweevil, nounwing, nounwinged, adjectivewoodlouse, nounwoodworm, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
· The bird’s natural diet mainly consists of small insects.
(=very small)· The air was filled with thousands of tiny insects.
· Toads mainly eat small dark flying insects.
literary:· Swallows swooped to snatch winged insects from the sky.
verbs
· Insects were flying around the food on the counter.
(=moves along the ground)· A tiny insect was crawling up his arm.
(=makes a continuous sound)· Insects were buzzing around our heads as we walked through the forest.
insect + NOUN
· He was worried about a large red insect bite on his back.
(=a hole in your skin made by an insect)· This cream is good for treating insect stings.
(=a chemical to keep insects away)· If you go camping, you should take some insect repellent.
· Large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct.
· The leaves were covered in insect eggs.
(=young insects with soft bodies and no wings)· Fish love food such as worms and insect larvae.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· In aquatic insects they are often specially adapted as swimming organs.· Of those that are known, aquatic insects that winter as immature stages in large ponds probably have the warmest environments.· They feed on crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic insects, live fish and will scavenge on dead fish.· A varied diet of earthworms, aquatic insects, shrimps, small fish and tablet foods will keep it in good health.
· Inspectors told of finding a sickening harvest of leaves, grease and dead insects in cupboards and drawers.· They keep us in jars like dead insects and fail to perceive the pulse of desire.· Will they eat dead insects or pieces of meat?· There were also rat droppings and dead insects at the dirt-ridden August Moon restaurant.
· Gregarious, flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics.· But flying insects have much more ancient enemies.· Gnat and Mosquito larvae, including Bloodworms, can not be bred, as they are the young stages of flying insects.· Such late flowering plants are an important source of nectar for late flying insects.· It feeds upon flying insects and the tiny fish that inhabit the Aquasphere.
· It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle.
· Ladybirds and other insects should be equally welcome.· Birds become quieter in the afternoon, while butterflies and other insects are more active, feeding on the opened flowers.· Several other insects attach extraneous objects or material to themselves, but for very different reasons.· While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.· And that they registered similar changes when other creatures - insects, spiders and so on - suffered pain in their presence.· Catch some flies, small moths, mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar.· In consequence, between 20 and 80% of ovules are killed by pollinators and other insects.· And vast numbers of other insect species fly throughout their adult phase.
· Other foods that can be placed in the compartment include caterpillars and small insects.· Both make up for the lack of nutrients in the soil by trapping and digesting small insects.· Others are virtually indistinguishable from the flowers with which they associate - so much so that smaller insects keep settling on them.· A small green insect with folded wings had settled on her forehead.· Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them.· Catch some flies, small moths, mosquitoes or other fairly small insects and keep them alive in a jar.· The cellar was a very unpleasant place, dusty and full of small scurrying insects.· As he cowered on the ground, a small insect ran from the space station.
· Ants are social insects, so their life is a fairly complicated one.· Are we all just social insects deep down?· His research focuses on the social insects, especially bees as pollinators.· Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies.· The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.· Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.· Among the social insects dense aggregations occur but without the loss of complex social organisation.· Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies.
· And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.· Head lice are tiny insects which live in the hair and feed by biting the scalp and sucking blood.· The pollen is usually transferred by tiny insects visiting the sweet and colored flowers where these plants are cultivated.· There are no land animals, apart from some tiny insects.· Scientists have even been able to distinguish tiny parasitic insects, mites, clinging to the legs of the bigger ones.· A redshank swept its bill through soft patches of wet mud and breakfasted on tiny insects, shrimps and wriggling worms.· She shook the sun dress convulsively, dislodging many of the tiny insects.
NOUN
· Conifers protect their trunks from mechanical damage and insect attack with a special gummy substance, resin.· Such crops occur after a dry spell or insect attack and happen only once.· These will have been pressure-impregnated, and will be resistant to damp and insect attack.
· His only injuries were sunburn, insect bites and chafing caused by spending more than 40 hours in his wetsuit.· At Ards, doctors have reported an increased number of patients coming forward for treatment for insect bites and stings.
· Unprotected by a shell, they are easy meat for insect larvae and flatworms.· Both fish prefer live foods, such as worms, insect larvae and small fish.· Instead they have to consume foods such as shrimps, snails, algae and insect larvae.· In soft-bodied insect larvae, where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms.· In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive.· Diet in the wild consists of snails, crustaceans and insect larvae.· For example, we might imagine a population of unpalatable, but cryptic, insect larvae.· Although their names make them sound like large predators, they are actually tiny insect larvae.
· In the tundra there is a massive growth of ground vegetation and insect life in a very short spring and summer.· The insect life of the leaves and grass was stilled.· Those alarmed by insect life should consider holidaying in Skegness.· Night-time average temperatures would increasingly leave much larger areas frost-free, leading to increases in insect life.· Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.· Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine.
· Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.· Smaller birds that prey on insect pests also raid fruit crops, which must be netted.· Also insect pests and diseases increase when the same crops are grown year after year.· Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests.· The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey.· Some plants already possess genetic resistance to attacks by insect pests while others resist certain fungal diseases.
· I glued up the cat flap. 1 sprayed the letter box with insect repellent.· So as soon as the bamboos were skinned, the fishermen coated them with a natural insect repellent.· Vic says not to worry - did I think Father Firmin had insect repellent all those years ago?· To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets.· I never went out without my insect repellent and waterproof sunblock.· Good pine shavings are best as they contain resin, which also acts as an insect repellent.· So use a good insect repellent and remember to keep re-applying it.
· The numbers of damaging insect species resistant to pesticide have multiplied from 160 to 450 since 1960.· Certain insect species are simply cleverer than we.· And vast numbers of other insect species fly throughout their adult phase.· If world insect species totals are as high as 50 million, this would extend to 28,345 species per insect specialist.· Imagine the myriads of such infrared and other pathways and signals that the various insect species must be utilizing.
· To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.· Children admiring Living World stick insects.· One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.· Eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids, stick insects and equipment are available for sale from the showroom.· He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.· The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.· When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.
VERB
· Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.· The smell of decay will attract mammals and insects that consider it lunch.· Phosphorescent fungi attract night-flying insects, such as moths, which perform the same role.· In some orchids, a mere one plant in fifty attracts even a single insect.· Perishable food or sweets hidden away in drawers may attract mice or insects or may go off.· Such blooms attracted several kinds of insects - bees as well as beetles.
· A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day.· Reality now was the children catching insects for food, and wartime silence under a high, full moon.· Then they will suddenly swoop down to catch mammals or sometimes insects or worms.· The male catches an insect and carefully parcels it up in silk.· They do not fly to catch insects flying fish are largely oceanic and flying insects are rare over the open sea.
· Bacterial rotting often does not look much like mould. % % % q. Local birds tend to eat little black insects.· They ate insects and were fun to watch when one was high.· Will they eat dead insects or pieces of meat?· A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.· They are popular with farmers and ranchers, because they eat the insects around cattle.· The Solenodon eats insects and the occasional bird, reptile or amphibian.· Other species eat worms or insect larvae.
· They feed on insects, seed and shoots, digging in the snow with well-feathered feet and burrowing for food and shelter.· The bats leave the caverns at sunset each day to feed on night-flying insects.· They are also fed intermittently with stunned insects.· Consequently, the swallows fly progressively higher to feed on the insects.· Tarsiers feed mainly on insects and their larvae but can catch small lizards, fledgling birds, spiders and forest mice.· It feeds upon flying insects and the tiny fish that inhabit the Aquasphere.· The most aerial of all birds, superficially resembling swallows and martins, feeding on flying insects.· Wild specimens are known to feed predominantly on insect larvae but will also take algae and detritus.
· The cold water cistern should be fitted with a lid to keep out light and insects but should not be airtight.· The overflow connection should have a filter to keep out insects and an internal dip tube to prevent icy draughts.· Apart from adding to the pleasure of a wood, they keep down insects which might harm the trees.
· These cells then swell and burst, killing the insect.· Modern woodworm killing fluids are very efficient and will kill the insects at all stages of their life cycle.· At least 100,000 fish are thought to have been killed, along with the insects and plants on which they depend.· Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets.
 a small creature such as a fly or ant, that has six legs, and sometimes wings:  an insect bite flying insects Don’t forget to bring insect repellent (=a chemical to keep insects away).COLLOCATIONSadjectivessmall· The bird’s natural diet mainly consists of small insects.tiny (=very small)· The air was filled with thousands of tiny insects.a flying insect· Toads mainly eat small dark flying insects.a winged insect literary:· Swallows swooped to snatch winged insects from the sky.verbsan insect flies· Insects were flying around the food on the counter.an insect crawls (=moves along the ground)· A tiny insect was crawling up his arm.an insect buzzes (=makes a continuous sound)· Insects were buzzing around our heads as we walked through the forest.insect + NOUNan insect bite· He was worried about a large red insect bite on his back.an insect sting (=a hole in your skin made by an insect)· This cream is good for treating insect stings.insect repellent (=a chemical to keep insects away)· If you go camping, you should take some insect repellent.an insect species· Large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct.insect eggs· The leaves were covered in insect eggs.insect larvae (=young insects with soft bodies and no wings)· Fish love food such as worms and insect larvae.THESAURUSinsect a small creature such as a fly or ant, that has six legs, and sometimes wings: · Head lice are tiny insects that live in the hair.bug a small insect: · What are those little bugs in my roses?creepy-crawly informal an insect, especially one that you are frightened of: · The mattress was covered in creepy-crawlies.aphid technical a small insect that lives on the juice of plants and destroys them: · The leaves have been attacked by aphids.
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