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

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Pcter Burrows彼得·伯罗斯

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Terry BurrowsTerence Ashley Burrows (born January 18th, 1963 in Ipswich, England) is an English multi-instrumental musician and author based in Londo Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of books relating to music tuition, technology, business, popular psychology and history - including KISS Guide to Playing Guitar (Dorling Kindersley), Total Guitar Tutor (Barnes & Noble), and Play Electric Guitar (St Martin's Press).

Lincoln BurrowsLincoln Burrows, played by Dominic Purcell, is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists of the American television series Prison Break. The plot of Prison Break revolves around Lincoln Burrows' setup for the murder of the vice president's brother and his brother's plan to help him escape his death sentence.

英汉例句

• these playful rodents live in well-organized underground burrows called towns that can have populations in the thousands.

  这些爱嬉戏的啮齿动物生活在仔细规划的地下洞穴里，可以称之为镇，居住的土拨鼠可以达到数千只。

• they survive the cold season in their below-frostline burrows living off the fat they stored up during the summer and fall.

  它们在霜线以下的洞穴里，靠夏季和秋季储存的脂肪度过寒冷的冬季。

• biologists plan to build artificial burrows in shrub-steppe habitat within the next month in preparation for the release, said beau patterson, a state biologist in wenatchee.

  生物学家们计划在下个月内在侏儒兔栖息的地方修建人造的地洞，为这些侏儒兔的放归做準备。

• veronica stands before a local news van and announces that she represents lincoln burrows and she wants to tell her story.

  veronica站在一辆当地新闻报道车前，宣布她是代表lincolnburrows的律师，她希望能就这起事件发表声明。

• burrows will be dead soon.

  burrows不久将会被处死。

• in addition to battles over burrows and lurking predators, an even more grim reality emerged from the 250,000 hours of footage—most crickets have no descendants.

  除因地洞和潜伏的掠食者而战斗之外，一个甚至更加残酷的现实从250,000个小时的记录里慢慢浮现-大多数蟋蟀并没有后代。

• marmots don't have facebook yet, but animals living among clusters of burrows in colorado do interact enough for observers to plot networks with each marmot as a node.

  土拨鼠们还没用上facebook，不过在科罗拉多州，群居于洞穴中的动物互动甚为频繁，足够使观察者们通过把每只土拨鼠作为一个结点，来划分其社会网络。

• tilefish construct some of the largest burrows in the sea, forming pueblos similar to those american indians built on land centuries ago.

  海洋里一些最大的洞穴就是由马头鱼建造的，形成了和几世纪前美国印第安人建在陆地上的村落差不多的群落。

• linda has more burrows and a greater status among the penguins at the zoo.

  琳达拥有更多的地洞以及动物园所有企鹅中最高的地位。

• under these more crowded conditions, the restless nighttime movements of the arrhythmic chipmunks in their burrows clued the weasels in to their locations, and predation increased dramatically.

  在这些更加拥挤的环境中，地洞里无节奏的金花鼠不得休息的夜间活动把它们的所在暴露给黄鼠狼，猎食急剧增加。

• on hot days, they tend not to move around much, preferring to laze in cool burrows so as not to overheat.

  在炎热的日子里，它们往往不怎么四处走动，宁愿呆在凉爽的洞穴，以免过热。

• his study, just published in geology, is of two burrows fossilised in sandstone near escalante, utah.

  他的研究刚发表在《地质学》上，是关于犹他州艾斯卡兰特附近的砂巖中两个石化的洞穴的。

• trapdoor spiders get their name because they use soil, vegetation, and silk to construct doors to their burrows that are hinged with silk.

  螲蟷的英文名称叫trapdoorspider，直译为活板门蜘蛛，这是因为它们使用土壤、草木和丝建造洞门并通过丝铰链与洞穴相连。

• the market town of skuon is cambodia’s veritable spiderville, thanks to a network of tarantula burrows nearby.

  由于附近有大量的毛蜘蛛洞穴，柬埔寨的斯昆集镇可谓名副其实的蜘蛛城。

• to locate the underground stores, gatherers looked for entryways to burrows or thumped the ground and listened for hollows.

  为了定位那些地下商店，搜集者们用挖掘或敲击地面，听底部空洞的声音来寻找洞穴。

• an ideal den must be deep underground, where the earth is warm, but accessible from the surface via burrows or natural fissures.

  理想的巢穴必须深入土壤很温暖的地下，但可以通过地洞或自然裂缝从地面进入。

• in other words, the meteorite strike helped pave the way for those ancestors eventually to emerge from their burrows so that mankind could take centre stage.

  换句话说，正是那次流星撞击为我们的祖先铺设了一条道路，慢慢走出洞穴，最终使得人类登上了历史舞台。

• they help decompose organic matter, and their burrows keep soil drained and ventilated.

  它们帮助分解有机物，其洞穴还能使土壤保持排水和通风。

• that they should have lived in burrows is no surprise.

  它们应该住在洞穴中也不奇怪。

• 「i was reading about how rabbits had created these underground networks of burrows that were compromising the structural integrity of runways, 」 said rockman.

  「当时我在读一本关于兔子挖地洞网络危及飞机跑道结构完整性的书，」洛克曼说。

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