butterfly

Related topics: Insects

but·ter·fly /ˈbʌtəflaɪ $ -ər-/ noun (plural butterflies) [countableC]

HBIa type of insect that has large wings, often with beautiful colours 蝴蝶 →4 See picture of 见图 INSECT →5 see picture at 见图 insect

2 have/get butterflies (in your stomach) informalNERVOUS to feel very nervous before doing something 〔做某事前〕情绪紧张，心里发慌

I always get butterflies before an exam.

考试前我总是很紧张。

3. the butterfly a way of swimming by lying on your front and moving your arms together over your head while your legs move up and down 蝶泳 →4 See picture of 见图 SWIMMING →5 see picture at 见图 swim

4 CHANGE YOUR MINDsomeone who usually moves on quickly from one activity or person to the next 见异思迁的人；无常性的人

Gwen’s a real social butterfly.

格温是个十足的交际花。

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butterfly• These people can take many blows, but I, I am fragile as a butterfly.• The snails had vanished, but now some one seemingly had traced a picture of a butterfly in the dirt.• A butterfly wing has a dynamically changing structure that allows myriad responses to its own induced wing vortices.• I feel a kind of reverence in late summer when I visit that abandoned butterfly garden.• He collected rocks and butterflies and devoured accounts of recent scientific expeditions.• At about the seventeenth day the first butterflies will probably start to emerge.• For the patterned butterflies I used a small part of the leaf design.• Gwen's a real social butterfly.• I shut my eyes and tried to see the butterfly.

Origin butterfly

Old English buterfleoge, from butere ( → BUTTER1) + fleoge “fly”; perhaps because many types of butterfly are yellow, or because people believed that butterflies steal milk and butter

but·ter·fly noun

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