1.HBAa small soft creature that moves very slowly and has a hard shell on its back 蜗牛
2at a snail’s paceSLOWextremely slowly 以蜗牛的速度,极慢地,慢吞吞地
Traffic was moving at a snail’s pace.
车辆移动的速度慢得像蜗牛。
Examples from the Corpus
snail• Making a shell is costly for a snail.• If insects, worms and snails could scream, would you still light that bonfire?• At different points along a trail the child sees snails-different snails each time.• Some of these, such as most small snails and limpets, are quite harmless.• Unfortunately, the snailspread across the island and caused widespreaddestruction to crops.• The snails had vanished, but now some one seemingly had traced a picture of a butterfly in the dirt.
ADJECTIVE | SNAIL + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤edible食用蝸牛▸➤aquatic, land, marine, pond, sea, water螺;蝸牛;海螺;塘螺SNAIL + NOUN➤shell蝸牛殼PHRASES➤slugs and snails (especially BrE) 蛞蝓和蝸牛◇the war with the slugs and snails in my garden我與園子裏的蛞蝓、蝸牛展開的戰鬥➤(at) a snail's pace(以)極慢的速度◇Traffic had slowed to a snail's pace.車流速度減慢,像蝸牛在爬。