snail是什么意思？

snail

英[sneɪl] 美[snel]

• n. 蜗牛，慢性子；

复数：snails;

例句

• the slow passage of a snail across the verandah 蜗牛缓慢地爬过阳台
• Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body. 蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
• I confess it with shame--shrunk icily into myself, like a snail. 我羞愧地忏悔了——冷冰冰地退缩，像个蜗牛。
• A snail extrudes its horns. 一只蜗牛伸出它的触角.
• The snail left a trail of slime along the floor. 蜗牛在地板上留下一道黏液.
• The train was moving now at a snail's pace. 火车这会儿走得跟蜗牛一样慢。
• Rich oyster, mussel, clam, snail, seaweed, laver and other shellfish, algae. 盛产牡蛎 、 蛏 、 蛤 、 螺 、 海带 、 紫菜等贝 、 藻类.
• That janitor is a snail who never gets things done. 那个照管房屋的人动作慢吞吞的,什么事也做不成.
• I confess it with shame -- shrunk icily into myself, like a snail. 我羞愧地忏悔了 —— 冷冰冰地退缩, 像个蜗牛.
• This paper reviews some equiblast cupolas, and introduces emphatically the snail like wind box cupola. 本文评述了均匀送风冲天炉, 并着重介绍蜗螺风箱冲天炉.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  蜗牛
  A snail is a small animal with a long, soft body, no legs, and a spiral-shaped shell. Snails move very slowly.
• PHRASE
  慢吞吞地;缓慢地
  If you say that someone does something at a snail's pace, you are emphasizing that they are doing it very slowly, usually when you think it would be better if they did it much more quickly.
  例句
  The train was moving now at a snail's pace... 火车这会儿走得跟蜗牛一样慢。 The economy grew at a snail's pace in the first three months of this year. 今年第一季度经济增速缓慢。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  蜗牛
  Most snails have shells on their backs. 大多数蜗牛背上有壳。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
  2. edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
• Verb
  1. gather snails;
  "We went snailing in the summer"

行业词典

• 医学： 蜗牛，小螺：一种有螺壳的腹足类软体动物。在热带国家，某些淡水蜗牛是寄生吸虫的中间宿主。吸虫的毛蚴在蜗牛体内发育成尾蚴；