象鼻虫

Every time the residents brush their teeth,millions of gallons of water must be drawn from the Catskills and the hills of Westchester.

地下的电话线、输电线、蒸汽管道、煤气管道和下水道系统是把这块地方交给神和象鼻虫来支配的充足理由。

I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

在我的地窖中，我有一小桶的土豆，大约两夸脱的豌豆，连带它们的象鼻虫，在我的架上，还有一点儿米，一缸糖浆，还有黑麦和印第安玉米粉，各一配克。

Ok, let's just say, tomorrow a tobacco weevil comes and eats every last Old Gold on the planet.

好吧，我们假设哈，明天一只象鼻虫把地球上所有的流金岁月烟都吃掉了。

Haul that weevil to his feet.

用象鼻虫把他的脚绑起来。

Small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts.

嘴巴长的小象鼻虫；对谷物和坚果等有破坏作用。

The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil."

备受尊敬的该频道的节目主持人 Richard Dimbleby 在节目中说这次的大丰收主要归功于罕有的温和天气以及"象鼻虫的消除"。

Brown weevil that infests stored grain esp. rice.

在储存的谷物特别是稻谷中褐色象鼻虫。

Suspend its operations, will the weevil

暂停它的作业？象鼻虫会

The reaction of the urban type of mind to some genuinely rural names in New England was thus expressed by Sweetser:" Nomenclatural degradation is found in the various Hog-back Mountains, and the villainous names given to the fine peaks of the Ossipee Range, which are called the Black Snouts by the neighboring rustics."''6 By fiat of the U.

因此，在新英格兰，都市的思想类型与某些真正农村的名字起反应就被Sweetser表达为：&在各处猪背山脉（Hog-back Mountains）发现了命名的退化，而新罕布什尔州Ossipee山脉陡削的山峰被给予了邪恶的名字，它们被临近的乡巴佬称之为&黑象鼻虫。

Just as well—it's hard to imagine Steven Spielberg creating a blockbuster f/x extravaganza about reanimated weevils.

你很难想象斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格会去拍一部象鼻虫复活的大部头电影。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失