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

• Have you ever seen how the dragonflies mate?
  你见过蜻蜓是怎么恋爱交配的吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• For example insects like dragonflies make nocturnal flights to lay their eggs using horizontally polarized light as a beacon.
  举个例子，像蜻蜓这样的昆虫利用水平偏振光作为夜间飞行产卵的指示信号。
• 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。
• We stared silently at the tips of our rods, at the dragonflies that came and wells.
  我们不出声地盯着鱼竿梢，看着来而复去的蜻蜒。
• And, like songbirds, if the dragonflies hit the ocean, they turned and headed down the coast.
  同样同鸣禽一样，遇到海洋，它们就会掉头沿着海岸线前行。
• A few days ago, a net friend in Chelyabinsk Region of Russia shot the picture of two mating dragonflies, and uploaded it to the internet.
  日前，俄罗斯车里雅宾斯克州一名网友抓拍到了两只蜻蜓交配的奇妙景象，并把照片传到了网上。
• 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。
• It is home to a stunning array of wildlife including birds, dragonflies, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, butterflies and fish!
  园内有品种繁多的野生生物，包括雀鸟、蜻蜓、两栖生物、哺乳类及爬虫类动物、蝴蝶，以及鱼类。