caterpillar

英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]

美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]

n. 毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)

Collins.1 / BNC.10524 / COCA.13163

牛津词典

noun

毛虫，蠋（蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫）
a small creature like a worm with legs, that develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insects with large, sometimes brightly coloured, wings). Caterpillars eat the leaves of plants.

毛虫
Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.

noun

a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

You are this caterpillar now;
你们现在就是这只毛毛虫；
` Not a bit, 'said the Caterpillar.
一点也不。毛毛虫说。
A caterpillar's dream to fly.
一个梦想飞翔的毛虫。
Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees.
尺蠖蛾的绿色的毛虫；破坏多种果树和遮荫树。
A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
I used to watch the whole process from caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly.
我通常观察蝴蝶的整个生命过程&从毛虫变成蛹再变成蝴蝶。
A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
毛虫变成了蝴蝶。
The Caterpillar was the first to speak.'What size do you want to be?
毛毛虫首先开腔了：你想变成多么大小呢？
Where are you, Caterpillar?
你在哪儿，小毛毛虫？
He was a big, fat caterpillar.
它是一条胖嘟嘟的大毛虫了。