【cockroach】 - A-level备考词汇

cockroach

US:  [ˈkɒkˌroʊtʃ]

复数：cockroaches  

n.

1.【虫】蟑螂

1 . Attach it to the dismembered leg of an unsuspecting cockroach and listen to its neurons as an iPhone interface creates visualizations.
将它附着到一只毫无戒心的蟑螂的肢解腿上，便能像iPhone界面创造的视觉化一样聆听它的神经元。

2 . I got up to flush when I noticed that there was a cockroach struggling feebly in the pile of crap.
起来冲水的时候，看到一只蟑螂在大便里无力地挣扎着。

3 . Even at the end of her life at the age of 208? ? years, she was still working hard on a book on a dog and a cockroach.
即使在她208岁的生命的尽头，她还在孜孜不倦地写一本关于狗和蟑螂的书。

4 . If you think we're being silly by picking such a completely different animal, fine. Try it with a fly, or a cockroach.
如果你觉得拿牛这样比蚯蚓构造复杂得多的动物来打比方很傻的话，你可以用苍蝇或者蟑螂试试。

5 . Carl was jumping about like a cockroach. He has just enough Jew in him to lose his head over an idea like Russia.
卡尔像蟑螂一样蹦来蹦去，他身上的犹太血统足以使他因为俄国这样一个念头而欣喜若狂。