英语词汇“grasshopper-like”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ˈgrasshopper-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a grasshopper (rare); (b) adj. reminiscent of or resembling a grasshopper; like that of a grasshopper.In quot. 1615, with allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper: spec. frivolously, without planning or preparing or the future.

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1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving iii. 7 Winter sure shall be full of want, full of discontent, that thus grashopper-like respected their Summer.

1641 E. Woodward Light to Gram. Pref. sig. a8 I follow Nature all along, keeping pace with her, which is constant, not Grashopper-like, hopping, and leaping, now up, then downe againe presently.

1768 G. White Let. 17 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 55 This last [sort of willow-wren]..makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise.

1882 Harper's Mag. June 18/2 When he hauls it in, it contains many strange creatures besides the frisky, grasshopper-like decapod crustacean for which he is seeking.

1923 A. E. Coppard Black Dog 236 Huxley Rustem settled himself patiently upon the hairdresser's waiting bench to probe the speculation that jumped grasshopper-like into the field of his inquisitorial mind: Why does a man become a barber?

2018 New Yorker (Nexis) 5 Feb. 42 Drones..with a more insectoid appearance, a more grasshopper-like profile.

单词	grasshopper-like
释义	> as lemmas ˈgrasshopper-like ˈgrasshopper-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a grasshopper (rare); (b) adj. reminiscent of or resembling a grasshopper; like that of a grasshopper.In quot. 1615, with allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper: spec. frivolously, without planning or preparing or the future. ΚΠ 1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving iii. 7 Winter sure shall be full of want, full of discontent, that thus grashopper-like respected their Summer. 1641 E. Woodward Light to Gram. Pref. sig. a8 I follow Nature all along, keeping pace with her, which is constant, not Grashopper-like, hopping, and leaping, now up, then downe againe presently. 1768 G. White Let. 17 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 55 This last [sort of willow-wren]..makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise. 1882 Harper's Mag. June 18/2 When he hauls it in, it contains many strange creatures besides the frisky, grasshopper-like decapod crustacean for which he is seeking. 1923 A. E. Coppard Black Dog 236 Huxley Rustem settled himself patiently upon the hairdresser's waiting bench to probe the speculation that jumped grasshopper-like into the field of his inquisitorial mind: Why does a man become a barber? 2018 New Yorker (Nexis) 5 Feb. 42 Drones..with a more insectoid appearance, a more grasshopper-like profile. extracted from grasshoppern. < as lemmas
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