termites

英 [ˈtɜːmaɪts]

美 [ˈtɜrmaɪts]

n.  白蚁
termite的复数

柯林斯词典

• 白蚁
  Termitesare small white insects which live in hot countries in homes made of earth. Termites do a lot of damage by eating wood.

双语例句

• This spray will exterminate the termites.
  这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。
• The foundations have been sapped away by termites.
  我们的地基被白蚁给挖空掉了。
• The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.
  在蜜蜂、蚂蚁和白蚁等的群居昆虫部落中唯一有繁殖能力的雌性；它的作用是产卵。
• An organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites.
  蚂蚁或白蚁社会中可以呈现多个成体形态的有机体。
• Ever used an exterminator to get rid of mice, termites, fleas or cockroaches?
  曾经用药除过老鼠，白蚁，跳蚤和蟑螂吗？
• Flying termites poured out of the clefts.
  白蚁从缝隙中纷纷飞了出来。
• Burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites.
  澳大利亚体表有刺的穴居单孔目动物，有长长的口鼻以及用于捕食蚂蚁和白蚁的爪。
• Boric acid has been used to kill other insects including cockroaches, termites and ants inside homes since the middle of last century.
  自上世纪中期以来，硼酸就一直被用来消灭家中的蟑螂，白蚁和蚂蚁等昆虫。
• However, ants have a narrow "waist" between the abdomen and thorax, which termites do not.
  然而，蚂蚁有一个狭窄的“腰围”的腹部和胸部，而白蚁不是。
• But wood-eating insects called termites.
  但一种叫白蚁的昆虫蚕食了木头。