beavers

英 [ˈbiːvəz]

美 [ˈbiːvərz]

n.  河狸，海狸(水栖啮齿动物，加拿大的象征); 海狸毛皮(用以制作衣帽); 女子阴部
v.  埋头苦干
beaver的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 河狸
  Abeaveris a furry animal with a big flat tail and large teeth. Beavers use their teeth to cut wood and build dams in rivers.
• N-UNCOUNT 河狸毛皮
  Beaveris the fur of a beaver.
  1. ...a coat with a huge beaver collar.
     大河狸领外套

双语例句

• Beavers live and work together in family groups.
  河狸以家庭为群，一起生活和工作。
• Extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States.
  已灭绝的更新世海狸；分布于美国东部和南部。
• She beavers away for hours knitting jumpers for her favourite charity.
  她连续数小时为她特别喜爱的慈善团体卖力地编织连衫裤童装。
• Early settlers also killed beavers for their meat.
  早期的开拓者也捕杀河狸，取它们的肉。
• Beavers are noted for their skill in building dams across streams.
  海狸因其会在水流中筑堤而闻名。
• Thus do the beavers, thus do the bees, thus do men.
  海狸是这样做的，蜜蜂是这样做的，人也是这样做的。
• Beavers may continue to build a dam over a long time, adding to it each year.
  河狸可能长时间不断地修筑一条堤坝，每年都加大一些。
• Yet it is vital to the survival of humans and a wide range of critters from dragonflies and piranhas to beavers and bullfrogs.
  不过，它对于人类的和家畜的生存是必要的，从蜻蜓和水虎鱼到海狸和牛蛙都离不开它。
• Beavers seem to know just how high to make a dam.
  河狸似乎知道该把堤坝筑多高正好。
• But gradually the wood in them decays and the beavers add more and more mud to repair them.
  然而，堤内的木头会渐渐腐烂，于是河狸又往堤上加更多的泥巴来修补。