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英:[ˈmeɪflaɪ]
美:[ˈmeˌflaɪ]
may·fly
meI flaI
复数:mayflies
noun
any of various fragile, winged insects that have a long aquatic larval stage, but that live in the adult stage for only a few hours.
a angler's lure made to resemble the adult form of this insect.
蜉蝣:属于蜉蜉目(Epheme-roptera)的有两对或一对三角形膜状翅的昆虫,见Hexagenia bilineata
The first known use of mayfly was circa 1653
mazyadjective
resembling a maze in confusing turns and windings
mazurkanoun
a fast Polish folk dance
music for the mazurka
mazenoun
a confusing complicated network of passages
something complicated or elaborate
a confusing maze of regulations
mayoraltynoun
the office or term of office of a mayor
mayornoun
an official elected to act as head of a city or borough
mayornoun
an official elected to act as head of a city or borough
mayonnaisenoun
a dressing consisting chiefly of egg yolk, vegetable oil, and vinegar or lemon juice
mayhemnoun
deliberate permanent crippling or injury of any part of the body
needless or willful damage or violence
mayhapadverb
perhaps
mayflynoun
any of a group of insects that as adults live only a short time and have fragile wings
1 But it has exploded in popularity, as this stage is the most vulnerable for the mayfly.
但爆炸的人气,作为现阶段最脆弱的蜉蝣。
2 But there's something unnerving about the way 18-year-old Patrick Battle says it would be better if the over-40s dropped off quietly, "like the mayflies when they've had their little bit of nonsense".
3 Throughout the spring and summer months, cutthroat will eagerly take flies ranging from caddis, mayfly and stonefly imitations to terrestrials like ants, grasshoppers and woolly worms.
4 “Part of the waste is built into the sludge of the river bed. It’s obviously not a good place for it, since fish and Tisza mayflies spawn there,” Hanko said.
5 Aquatic insects, such as caddisflies and mayflies, though, are adapted to natural seasonal flooding and lay eggs just below the surface of the water.
6 The 3-inch (7.6-centimeter) insect-which resembles a modern mayfly-likely stayed in the mud long enough to move its leg before flying off, leaving a perfect impression.
这只3英寸(7.6厘米)长的昆虫——类似于现代的蜉蝣类——在迈开腿起飞之前已经在泥土里待了足够长的时间,留下了一个完美的印迹。
7 Brown surveys his waterscape: hatching mayflies being devoured by dive-bombing swallows and ever-present coots nibbling on the budding hydrilla.
8 Our hunch is that multiple types of insects are contributing to the noisy radar signals — cicadas at low levels and mayflies or termites higher aloft.
9 Horsehair worms are born in water and use aquatic insects like mayflies to hitchhike to dry land, where they sit tight until they are eaten by terrestrial insects such as crickets or mantises.
10 From the shape of the insect, Michael s. Engel, an entomologist at the University of Kansas, identified it as a mayfly, one of the first groups of flying insects.
从虫子的外形看,堪萨斯州大学昆虫学家迈克尔·s·恩格尔认定它为一种最早的飞虫——蜉蝣类。
11 The oak tree was very pleased indeed to see the mayfly.
栎树的确很高兴地看到蜉蝣。
12 Toxicity levels have more than doubled since 2005 for important species, including honeybees, mayflies and buttercup flowers, as the country switched to a new generation of pesticides.
13 Yet, unlike some demi-celebrities whose fame is as fleeting as a mayfly hatch, he has an advantage.
14 There was an edition of Thomas Boreman’s “Moral Reflections on the Short Life of the Ephemeron,” for example, that featured meticulous, hand-tinted etchings of mayflies.
15 Once mayfly larvae are found, they will be removed.
一旦蜉蝣幼虫被发现,它们就会被去除。
16 I was up early, and as soon as we pulled in you could see mayflies dancing in the air all around us.
17 Dana Jennings Art may be eternal, but exhibitions come and go like mayflies.
18 The mayfly is to trout fly fishing, what the microchip is to the personal computer.
鳟鱼是飞的蜉蝣,什么是个人电脑晶片。
19 The oak tree and the mayfly kept on talking to each other.
橡树和蜉蝣不断的互相交谈。
20 How: Nymphs that mimic early stoneflies and Baetis mayflies are always safe bets; however, Demalderis cautions not to rule out streamers.
1 多种
Brown rail copper prominent deer dolphin cricket flea sucker cockroach laurel leech quail pheasant plurality plantain sparrow partridge bedbug mantis tern vole mongoose parakeet softshell winkle shearwater gladiolus pufferfish whistler pipit surgeonfish shrike veronica nightjar gurnard buteo tinamou gerbera trogon genista hawkmoth clearwing livebearer manakin prickleback ruby-tail tyrannulet puffbird toucanet pond skater snipe fly sea robin labyrinth fish worm lizard mantis shrimp liver fluke water lily electric ray dog rose root fly bark beetle slipper limpet crane fly storm petrel
2 蜉蝣
shadfly ephemera dayfly ephemerid may fly drake fly drake Ephemeroptera green drake March brown ephemeron
4 蜉蝣目