katydid
['ket?,d?d]
- n. 美洲大螽斯；紡織娘
英文詞源
- katydid (n.)
- insect of the locust family (Microsentrum rhombifolium), 1784, American English (perhaps first used by John Bartram), imitative of the stridulous sound the male makes when it rubs its front wings together. The sound itself is more accurately transcribed from 1751 as catedidist.
[T]heir noise is loud and incessant, one perpetually and regularly answering the other in notes exactly similar to the words Katy did, or Katy Katy did, repeated by one, and another immediately bawls out Katy didn't, or Katy Katy didn't. In this loud clamour they continue without ceasing until the fall of the leaf, when they totally disappear. [J.F.D. Smyth, "A Tour in the United States of America," 1784]
雙語例句
- 1. The cicada is stilled. The chorus of the cricket and katydid diminishes.
- 秋蟬安靜下來,蟋蟀和蚱蜢的合唱聲減弱.
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- 2. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
- 22其中有蝗蟲, 螞蚱, 蟋蟀與其類,蚱蜢與其類,這些你們都可以吃.
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