caterpillar

汉语翻译

n. 毛虫
【机】 履带车

英语解释：

名词 caterpillar:

1. a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
2. a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
   同义词：cat

例句：

1. A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.
   毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。
2. Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft, elongated body.
   幼虫几种爬行昆虫幼虫的一种，如蛆或毛毛虫，有柔软的，细长的身体
3. A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
   毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
4. The ugly caterpillar will change into a beautiful butterfly.
   丑陋的毛虫会变成美丽的蝴蝶。

详细解释：

cat.er.pil.lar

n.（名词）
The wormlike, often brightly colored, hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.
毛虫：蝴蝶或蛾子的蠕虫状，多为浅颜色的多毛或带刺的幼虫
Any of various insect larvae similar to those of the butterfly or moth.
毛虫：任何一种类似于蝴蝶或蛾子幼虫的各类昆虫的幼虫

来源：
Middle English catirpel, catirpeller
中古英语 catirpel, catirpeller
probably alteration of Old North French *catepelose
可能为 古法国北方方言 *catepelose的变化
cate [cat] from Latin cattus
cate [猫] 源自 拉丁语 cattus
pelose [hairy] from Latin pilôsus * see pilose
pelose [多毛的] 源自 拉丁语 pilôsus *参见 pilose

<注释>It seems that the larvae of moths and butterflies are popularly seen as resembling other, larger animals.Consider the Italian dialect wordgatta, .cat, caterpillar.; the German dialect termtüfelskatz, .caterpillar. (literally .devil`s cat.); the French wordchenille, .caterpillar. (from a Vulgar Latin diminutive, .canocula, of canis, .dog.); and last but not least,our own wordcaterpillar, which appears probably to have come through Northern French from the Old French termchatepelose, meaning literally .hairy cat..Our wordcaterpillar is first recorded in English in 440 in the formcatyrpel. Catyr, the first part of catyrpel, may indicate the existence of an English word.cater, meaning .tomcat,.otherwise attested only incaterwaul. Cater would be cognate with Middle High German kater and Dutch kater. The latter part ofcatyrpel seems to have become associated with the word piller, .plunderer.. By giving the variant spelling -ar, Johnson`s Dictionary set the spelling caterpillar with which we are familiar today.
似乎蛾子和蝴蝶的幼虫经常会被看成与其它较大动物相似。意大利方言中gatta， 一字，.猫，毛虫.； 日耳曼方言中tüfelskatz 一字.毛虫.（直译为. * 的猫.）； 法语词chenille， .毛虫.（来自民间拉丁语小词缀， canicula， 源自 canis ，是.狗.的意思）； 最后但并非不重要的一点，英语中caterpillar 一词， 可能是来源于从法国北部传来的古法语词汇chatepelose， 字面意思是.多毛的猫.。caterpillar 一字于440年最早记录在英语中， 以catyrpel的形式出现。 Catyr是 catyrpel 的第一部分， 可能指明英语词cater 的存在， 意指.雄猫.，否则只能存在于caterwaul一词中。 Cater可能与中世纪高地德语 kater 和荷兰语 kater 有关。 catyrpel 一词的后一部分似乎与 piller 一词有关，意思是.强盗.。 约翰逊的词典 给出了不同的拼写- ar， 从而形成了我们今天所熟悉的 caterpillar