英语释义

1. a hole or excavation in the ground made by an animal (such as a rabbit) for shelter and habitation

2. to make a burrow
A fox had burrowed into the side of the hill.

3. to progress by or as if by digging
burrowing through a pile of paperwork

4. to make a motion suggestive of burrowing snuggle, nestle
burrowed against his back for warmth

5. to conceal oneself in or as if in a burrow

6. to penetrate by means of a burrow
The tunnel burrows its way under the mountain.

7. to construct by tunneling
burrowed a dwelling

8. to make a motion suggestive of burrowing with nestle
burrows her hand into mine

9. to hide in or as if in a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter and habitation to hide in or as if in a burrow
was burrowed in his cave

10. a hole or tunnel in the ground that an animal (such as a rabbit or fox) makes to live in or for safety

11. to make a hole or tunnel in the ground by digging

12. to move or press under, through, or into something

13. a hole in the ground made by an animal (as a rabbit or fox) for shelter or protection

14. to hide in or as if in a burrow
… she burrowed face downward into the pillow …
— Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

15. to make a burrow

16. to proceed by or as if by digging
He burrowed through his suitcase.

17. a passage or gallery formed in or under the skin by the wandering of a parasite (as the mite of scabies or a foreign hookworm)

片语

burrowing pus鉆穿性脓

burrowing snakes盲蛇

burrowing ability潜沙能力

burrowing mouse大鼻洞鼠

burrowing frogBurrowing frog may refer to several fossorial frog species:

burrow into探查

Burrowing Animhas掘穴植物

burrowing wasps小唇沙蜂

burrowing animal洞穴动物

burrowing animals洞穴动物

英汉例句

• Even as soldiers cheered at the rescue of Mr Liu, rescue teams were burrowing into the other side of the building. Three men who had been playing mahjong together were still alive.

  就在士兵还在为救出了刘先生的欢呼时候，其他的队伍依然在废墟中打洞，因为还有三个当时在打麻将的人依然在废墟下活着。

• Many types of clam escape predators by burrowing into the sea bed using alternating movements of their shell and of the soft, muscular foot contained within that shell.

  许多蛤类利用双壳及内部柔软强健足部的交替运动在河床上掘洞来逃避天敌。

• It is not just dogs that engineers are copying now, but shrews complete with whiskers, swimming lampreys, grasping octopuses, climbing lizards and burrowing clams.

  现在，工程师们的仿生对象不仅有狗，还包括长有胡须的鼩鼱，会游泳的七鳃鳗，抓力十足的章鱼，善于攀爬的蜥蜴和穴居蛤。

• Unlike virtually every other species, the hominids could not rely on speed, flight, strength, arboreal clambering, burrowing or ferocity to evade predators.

  与几乎其他任何一个物种不同，猿类不能够依靠速度、飞行、力量、爬树、掘洞或者是残忍的躲避捕食者等等这些能力。

• Most are microbes of bacteria, though there are also worms burrowing into the sea bed and ocean insects less than 1mm long.

  它们中的大部分属于细菌，但有也有一些是在海床中挖掘的蠕虫，或是体长小于1mm的海洋昆虫。

• On vacation in Hawaii, Zuk prowls not the beaches or rain forests but a lawn visited by crickets parasitized by flies that deposit burrowing larvae on their bodies.

  在夏威夷度假时，Zuk没在沙滩上或雨林中游览，而是在一片草地上观察了一只被寄生蝇产上幼虫的蟋蟀。

• Cold air is actively burrowing under warm air.

  冷空气快速地潜入到暖空气下面。

• There「s a strong correlation between the burrowing lifestyle and very small limbs or the complete loss of limbs.

  从穴居生活到非常小的四肢，再到完全丧失四肢，这之间的关联非常强。

• (the fact that some burrowing creatures had survived the blast was one of the mountain」s first surprises.) Mr. Crisafulli marked off research plots that remain under study today.

  (事实是一些穴居动物在这场喷发中的存活引发了第一个惊喜之一)，克里萨·弗林标示出一块目前还在研究的区域说。

• Any of various short-tailed, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae of North America, having fur-lined external cheek pouches.

  囊鼠一种北美衣囊鼠科的穴居啮齿类动物，短尾，有皮毛呈线型的外颊囊。

• California ground squirrel is released after being checked by scientists in a conservation programme designed to aid burrowing owls in San Diego County.

  一个保护项目的科学家在检查完加州地松鼠后把它放了，这个保护项目旨在帮助在圣地亚哥郡的穴鸮鸟(穴居猫头鹰)。

• Growing to about a foot (30 centimeters) long, blind snakes act a lot like worms, burrowing under the surface of every continent except Antarctica.

  除了南极洲，在地球上的其他各大洲都可以见到盲蛇。 它们鉆入土壤中，就像一条蠕虫一样，而它们的身长也只能达到一英尺（30厘米）。

• So it hibernates, effectively cutting its energy consumption and thus its need for food, remaining secure from predators by burrowing underground.

  所以它会冬眠，有效地降低其能量消耗，从而降低了对食物的需求，同时通过躲在地下的洞中来避开掠食者的危险。

• What are you burrowing around in my drawer for?

  你在我抽屉里乱翻什么?。

• But, Dr Grant says this is the first convincing possible mechanism for a 「pre-earthquake cue」 that aquatic, semi-aquatic and burrowing animals might be able to sense and respond to.

  但是，格兰特博士说，这是有关「地震前线索」的第一个令人信服的可能机制，水生的、半水生的以及掘穴的动物可能能感觉到这样的线索并且作出反应。

• Early on the second night Horner reports the bio-signature of a previously unknown burrowing Zerg creature: an Infestor.

  第二晚的一开始，霍纳会报告有两个未知的虫族生化信号出现：感染虫。

• It was an intimate violation, this burrowing into themost private part of a woman「s anatomy.

  在这个女孩遗体最隐私的部位，这样摸索，也是一种侵犯吧。

• Growing Numbers of? Europeans are burrowing below ground to create house, offices, discos and shopping malls.

  持续增长的大量的欧洲人挖地洞建房子，公司，迪厅和商场。

• Not only is it more efficient to swim without limbs, burrowing without legs is also better, and this raises questions about the twists and turns of reptilian evolution.

  没有四肢不仅更适合游泳，也更适合鉆洞。这也引发了关于爬行类动物进化的问题。

• Large openings are formed by burrowing animals.

  穴居动物还造成了更大的洞隙。

• If it」s raining or wet, avoid burrowing in a hole and get off the ground.

  如果碰上雨天或潮湿，就不要挖洞或者开始建容身之处。

• The prisoners escaped by burrowing under the wall.

  囚犯们在墻下掘地道逃走了。

相似词

den(Den)人名；(日)传 (名)；(俄)杰恩；(法)德恩

hole凿洞，穿孔；（高尔夫球等）进洞

house(House)人名；(英)豪斯

lair(Lair)人名；(英、法)莱尔

lodge正式提出；存放；嵌入；租房；（风、雨）使（庄稼）倒伏