seventeen-year locust

seventeen-year locust

美 　英

• na.〈美〉【動】十七年蟬

英漢解釋

n.	1. a cicada that spends most of its 17 years of life as an underground nymph, living as a winged adult for only a few weeks.

例句

Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?

誰知道下一次還會發生什么樣的十七年蝗災？

If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord.

即便我們患了七年才治好的癬疥，我們也并沒有看見康科德受過的十六年蝗災。