seventeen-year locust

seventeen-year locust

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• na.〈美〉【动】十七年蝉

英汉解释

n.	1. a cicada that spends most of its 17 years of life as an underground nymph, living as a winged adult for only a few weeks.

例句

Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?

谁知道下一次还会发生什么样的十七年蝗灾？

If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord.

即便我们患了七年才治好的癣疥，我们也并没有看见康科德受过的十六年蝗灾。