dragonflies

英 [ˈdrægənflaɪz]

美

n.  蜻蜓
dragonfly的复数

柯林斯词典

• 蜻蜓
  Dragonfliesare brightly-coloured insects with long, thin bodies and two sets of wings. Dragonflies are often found near slow-moving water.

双语例句

• Yet it is vital to the survival of humans and a wide range of critters from dragonflies and piranhas to beavers and bullfrogs.
  不过，它对于人类的和家畜的生存是必要的，从蜻蜓和水虎鱼到海狸和牛蛙都离不开它。
• It was as if the planet had come lazily to a stop so we could all hear the buzzing of the dragonflies above the creek ­& and the beating of our own hearts.
  整个世界彷佛慵懒得停滞了，静得都能听见小溪蜻蜓的嗡嗡声和我们自己的心跳声。
• The children are catching dragonflies in a hutong.
  北京胡同里的孩子以抓蜻蜓为乐。
• Blue and green dragonflies, poised in the air, added to the enchantment.
  蓝蜻蜒，绿蜻蜒停在空中，一动也不动，这更增加了这里的神秘气氛。
• Fireflies fly butter to butterflies and dragonflies. Fireflies give off flashes of light when they fly at night.
  萤火虫飞快地送奶油给蝴蝶和蜻蜓。萤火虫夜间飞行时发出闪光。
• Insects buzzed around her, lazy dragonflies and glistening green wasps and stinging midges almost too small to see.
  昆虫围绕着她嗡嗡而叫，那些懒蜻蜓、发亮的绿蜂还有咬人的蚊蚋小得几乎看不见。
• Researchers at Arizona State University have been conducting experiments to test how oxygen-enriched atmospheres affect evolution, creating giant dragonflies and tiny cockroaches in the process.
  亚利桑那州立大学的研究人员一直在做实验探索富氧空气是如何影响进化，并在这个过程中产生大蜻蜓和小蟑螂的。
• Pierre went hunting like a small boy for what the pool might contain: dragonflies, tritons, salamanders.
  皮埃尔象小孩似地去寻找水塘里有什么蜻蜓、蝾螈、火蛇没有。
• Dragonflies spend their larval stages in water, and therefore aquatic environment is vital for their breeding cycles.
  由于蜻蜓在水中渡过幼虫阶段，故此水生环境对它们的繁殖周期非常关键。
• Tiffany commonly designed the lamp shades using natural forms like peacock feathers, spider webs, flowers, dragonflies and butterflies.
  蒂芙尼设计通常使用的灯罩像孔雀羽毛自然的形式，蜘蛛网，花卉，蜻蜓和蝴蝶。