英语释义

1. any of numerous small, nocturnal, furry-tailed Old World rodents (family Myoxidae synonym Gliridae) that live mainly in trees and resemble small squirrels Note: Dormice hibernate during cold weather and may become torpid at other times of the year when food is scarce.

2. a European animal that looks like a small squirrel

3. a small European animal that resembles a mouse but has a bushy tail, lives mostly in trees, and is active at night

片语

forest dormice林睡鼠属

african dormice非洲睡鼠属

mouse-tailed dormice鼠尾睡鼠属

dormice dormouse睡鼠

British dormice risk extinction英国睡鼠面临绝种危机

orchard dormice园睡鼠属

garden dormice园睡鼠属

英汉例句

• These young dormice were comprised of animals from wild animal parks and several private breeders, ensuring genetic diversity in the new population.

  这些幼小的榛睡鼠由一些野生动物园和若干私营育种者选育，以确保其群体的基因多样性。

• A family of four Glis dormice were found in the ticket machine on the platform of a little train station in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire after complaints it had stopped working.

  英国白金汉郡艾尔斯·伯里的一个小火车站屡屡接到投诉电话称火车售票机无法正常运行，检测后才发现是四只小睡鼠把这台机器当成了自己的家。

• And if one 「manages to do it twice」, does it mean the dormice choose to cross the road only once, or does it actually mean that none of them survive a second attempt at crossing the road?

  如果说「有一只甚至成功穿越了两次」，那这句话是说榛睡鼠们只选择过马路一次，还是实际上除那只成功者以外，所有榛睡鼠都没能在第二次尝试中生还？