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单词

wasp

读音
wɑːsp
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词根

"wasp"一词在英语中没有明确的词根。它来自古英语的 "weps", "wæps" 在这种语境中,它被用来指代极具攻击性的飞行昆虫。

释义

n. 黄蜂;[昆] 胡蜂;易怒的人 vi. 黄蜂似的直扑 [ 复数 wasps ]

例句

A wasp flew in the open window.
一只黄蜂飞进了开着的窗子。
I was stung on the arm by a wasp.
我的胳膊给黄蜂蜇了一下。
A wasp had flown in through the window.
一只黄蜂从窗口飞了进来。

强化记忆

一种记忆技巧是通过更深层次的理解"wasp"的含义和它的特性。譬如它可用来比喻脾气火爆、突然攻击的人或事物。"wasp"这个词在英国特别常见,尤其在夏天和秋天。由于过蛭的形状和无法预测的螫刺,它常被用来比喻尖锐,刺激和不可预测的人或事物。

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This is Ampulex compressa,the emerald cockroach wasp,and it is a truth universally acknowledged
but an eight-legged parasite, of course.This is a parasitic wasp,again, two millimeters long, slender, a very quick and sharp flier.
The bee that protects a hive of delectable honey?Or the wasp that paralyzes tarantulas?Let’s find out!
so perhaps they’re better off with this reliable, rather off-putting weapon.The tarantula hawk wasp’s formidable stingclocks in as the second most painful on the scale.
that live inside the bodies of each of those bugs in our home.In each bug, for example, a wasp,we see a microscopic jungle unfold in a petri plate,
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