caterpillar

英 [ˈkætəpɪlə(r)]

美 [ˈkætərpɪlər]

n. 毛虫，蠋(蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫)

Collins.1 / BNC.10524 / COCA.13163

牛津词典

noun

毛虫，蠋（蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫）
a small creature like a worm with legs, that develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insects with large, sometimes brightly coloured, wings). Caterpillars eat the leaves of plants.

毛虫
Acaterpillaris a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.

noun

a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

'Not a bit,'said the Caterpillar.
“我瞧不出。”毛毛虫说。
You are this caterpillar now;
你们现在就是这只毛毛虫；
The Duck with Chinese Caterpillar Fungus?
虫草鸭子？那是一种保健食品，对吧？
I am a little caterpillar.
我是一条小毛毛虫。
I used to watch the whole process from caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly.
我通常观察蝴蝶的整个生命过程&从毛虫变成蛹再变成蝴蝶。
A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
毛虫是蝴蝶的幼体。
A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
毛虫变成了蝴蝶。
'I don't know,'said the Caterpillar.
我不懂，毛虫说。
He was a big, fat caterpillar.
它是一条胖嘟嘟的大毛虫了。
This is my own "the very hungry caterpillar".
这是属于我自己的好饿好饿的毛毛虫。