triffids

triffids

美 　英

• 網絡巨害植物怪；三裂植物

詞形變化

復數：triffids  

英漢解釋

n.	1. a very large fictional plant capable of moving about and killing people, or any large plant thought to resemble a triffid

例句

At the heart of The Day of the Triffids is the idea that without cities there can be no civilisation.

《三腳妖之日》的核心思想在于，沒有城市文明便不復存在。

The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.

大范圍失明造成了隨處可見的混亂和饑荒，同時神秘的刺人三腳妖造成的威脅也更在不斷加劇。

"The triffids are perhaps to us a more potent threat than even in Wyndham's time, " Dr Langford suggests.

朗福特博士表示：“同溫德漢姆那個時代相比，對當代的我們來說三腳妖們的威脅更加真實而有壓迫感。”