weevil

英 ['wi?v(?)l; 'wi?v?l] 美['wivl]

復數(shù):?weevils;

weevil 象鼻蟲

來自PIE*webh,編織，穿梭，快速移動，詞源同weave,web。原用于指各種小甲蟲，后特別指象鼻蟲。

weevil: weevil: [15] Old English had a word wifel ‘beetle’, but this appears to have died out, and weevil was probably borrowed from Middle Low German wevel. Both words had the same ultimate origin, however: prehistoric Germanic *webilaz. It is not clear whether this was derived from the base *web-, *wab- ‘weave’ (source of English weave ‘make cloth’ and web), in which case the weevil would be the ‘weaving’ creature; or from the base *web- ‘move quickly’ (source of English weave ‘move in a zigzag way’, whip, etc), in which case it would be the ‘quick mover’.
weevil (n.): Old English wifel "small beetle," from Proto-Germanic *webilaz (cognates: Old Saxon wibil, Old High German wibil, German Wiebel "beetle, chafer," Old Norse tordyfill "dung beetle"), cognate with Lithuanian vabalas "beetle," from PIE root *webh- "to weave," also "to move quickly" (see weave (v.)). The sense gradually narrowed by 15c. to a particular kind of beetle that, in larval or adult stages, bores into plants, often destroying them.

2. If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit , you would catch them still.': 你們只要有干面包里的蟲子那樣的膽量, 就一定能抓住他們. ”

3. Farm demonstration work in the South helped to fight the cotton boll weevil.: 南部農(nóng)場示范工作大大幫助了對棉花象鼻蟲的防治.

4. The rice weevil is a good example of the high reproducibility of some grain insect species.: 米象是一些谷物昆蟲中繁殖能力強的典型.

5. Pest infestation also easily occurs, mainly rice weevil and corn weevil, etc.: 害蟲感染也易發(fā)生, 主要感染的害蟲有米象和玉米象等.