butterflies [
'bʌtəflaiz]
n. 蝴蝶(butterfly的复数)
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
蝴蝶用脚尝味道. - Spring is colourful. The weather is warm. The sky is blue. The leaves are green. I can fly a kite and catch butterflies. Sometimes I go hiking.
春天是彩色的季节。天气是暖和的。天空是蓝色的。树叶是绿色的。我可以放风筝,捉蝴蝶。有时我也可以去远足。 - "They call the study of butterflies lepidopterology,"the colonel once joked in an interview,"and that`s enough to scare anyone away from butterflies for good .
“他们把研究蝴蝶的学问叫作鳞翅类昆虫学”,上校曾经在一次会见中开玩笑说到,“这足够吓跑所有的蝴蝶。
Butterfly \But"ter*fly`\, n.; pl. {Butterflies}. [Perh. from the
color of a yellow species. AS. buter-fl[=e]ge,
buttor-fle['o]ge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See
{Butter}, and {Fly}.] (Zo["o]l.)
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal
Lepidoptera.
Note: [See Illust. under {Aphrodite}.]
{Asclepias butterfly}. See under {Asclepias}.
{Butterfly fish} (Zo["o]l.), the ocellated blenny ({Blennius
ocellaris}) of Europe. See {Blenny}. The term is also
applied to the flying gurnard.
{Butterfly shell} (Zo["o]l.), a shell of the genus {Voluta}.
{Butterfly valve} (Mech.), a kind of double clack valve,
consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to
a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat
resembles a butterfly in shape.