Moth

(noun.) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae.

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• What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Among the more familiar products of coal tar or petroleum are moth balls, carbolic acid, benzine, vaseline, and paraffine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Whilst Wildeve had been preparing his moth-signal another person had come behind him up to the gate. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The moth roamed away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Securing one, he returned to the window, and holding the moth to the chink, opened his hand. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The poor moth, when writhing in torture of its own seeking, how often and how easily I have put at rest! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The moth made towards the candle upon Eustacia's table, hovered round it two or three times, and flew into the flame. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Among insects there are innumerable instances; thus Linnaeus, misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect as a moth. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Partly of that moth whose skeleton is getting burnt up in the wick of the candle, she said slowly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was like strange moths, very soft and silent, settling on her from the darkness of her soul. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, replied Estella, with a glance towards him, hover about a lighted candle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Quatrefages states that the hybrids from two moths (Bombyx cynthia and arrindia) were proved in Paris to be fertile inter se for eight generations. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Measures were taken to select the seed of the heal thy moths and to destroy the others. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Wildeve contemplated her for a minute, and then retreating into the heath beat the ferns lightly, whereupon moths flew out alarmed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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