tadpole
英 ['tædpəʊl]
美 ['tæd'pol]
GRE TOEFL
tadpole 蝌蚪来自 tadde,蟾蜍,词源同 toad,pol,头,词源同 poll.引申词义蝌蚪。
- tadpole
- tadpole: [15] A tadpole is etymologically a ‘toad-head’. The word was coined from Middle English tadde ‘toad’ and pol ‘head’ (ancestor of modern English poll ‘voting’, historically a counting of ‘heads’). Tadpoles, with their moonlike faces appearing to take up about half of their small globular bodies, seem rather like animated heads.
=> poll, toad - tadpole (n.)
- mid-15c., from tadde "toad" (see toad) + pol "head" (see poll (n.)).
- 1. A tadpole transforms into a frog.
- 蝌蚪会变成青蛙.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. A few days after the eggs are laid, young frogs which are called tadpole come out of them.
- 卵产下几天以后, 称为蝌蚪的青蛙幼虫就从卵里出来了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. As a tadpole changes into a frog, its tail is gradually absorbed.
- 蝌蚪变成蛙, 它的尾巴就逐渐被吸收掉.
来自辞典例句
- 4. The tadpole is the larva of the frog.
- 蝌蚪是蛙的幼体.
来自辞典例句
- 5. What would we do if this patient were not just a tadpole?
- 要是这病人不是蝌蚪我们怎么办?
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