snail的意思|snail的解释-里氏词典

snail [sneil]

n. 蜗牛, 行动迟缓的人, 脑筋迟钝的人, 蜗形凸轮

vt. (蜗牛般)缓慢地打发(时间)

vi. 缓慢移动

[医] 蜗牛, 小螺

snail

[ noun ]

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

<noun.animal>

edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

<noun.food>

[ verb ]

gather snails

<verb.contact>

We went snailing in the summer

Snail \Snail\ (sn[=a]l), n. [OE. snaile, AS. sn[ae]gel, snegel,
sn[ae]gl; akin to G. schnecke, OHG. snecko, Dan. snegl, Icel.
snigill.]
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial
air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix
and many allied genera of the family {Helicid[ae]}.
They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world
except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on
vegetation; a land snail.
(b) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true
snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See
{Pond snail}, under {Pond}, and {Sea snail}.

2. Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

3. (Mech.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally
curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the
position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a
striking clock.

4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to
protect besiegers; a testudo. [Obs.]

They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . .
that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or
of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow
pavises and targets, under the which men, when they
fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail
is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.
--Vegetius
(Trans.).

5. (Bot.) The pod of the sanil clover.

{Ear snail}, {Edible snail}, {Pond snail}, etc. See under
{Ear}, {Edible}, etc.

{Snail borer} (Zo["o]l.), a boring univalve mollusk; a drill.

{Snail clover} (Bot.), a cloverlike plant ({Medicago
scuttellata}, also, {M. Helix}); -- so named from its
pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called also
{snail trefoil}, {snail medic}, and {beehive}.

{Snail flower} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Phaseolus
Caracalla}) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled
like a snail shell.

{Snail shell} (Zo["o]l.), the shell of snail.

{Snail trefoil}. (Bot.) See {Snail clover}, above.

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"It would be very rare for a snail shell to be more than 20 percent contaminated," he said.
On one side is a group led by a Frenchman backing the helix snail, the traditional favorite of France.
Part of his strategy is to call his product not talpengi, the Korean word for snail, but wau, a Chinese-derived word with all the cachet of escargot.
Several animals, including otters, raccoons and such endangered species as Everglades mink, wood storks and snail kites, could be at risk from mercury in the fish they eat or in other prey.
But it does suggest that controlling snail populations may not be a simple matter of sending predators after them, say Todd A. Crowl and Alan P. Covich in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
In Seoul, subways were overcrowded and vehicular traffic moved at a snail's pace.
"No longer would they be able to portray the U.S. Postal Service as a snail."
Yesterday's German money supply figures show that monetary growth is slowing, but only at a snail's pace.
Blue-chip stock prices ended higher as trading slowed to a snail's pace preceding today's trade deficit report.
Ms Spero says: 'It (Apec) is not going to be a snail.
Deregulation, moving admittedly at a snail's pace, is proceeding nonetheless, and is bringing down prices.
The snail hunt was prompted last week by Rabbi Menachem Burstin of Jerusalem, who is trying to recreate a process once used to dye a single thread of the Jewish prayer shawl in accordance with a biblical command.
While almost all agree that the economy is recovering, it is doing so at a snail's pace.
"There is no duty on fresh frozen or refrigerated snail imports, but a 20 percent ad valorem duty is applied to all imports that are prepared or preserved," the report said.
Its snail's pace and its noisy chugs have endeared millions, spawning Deux Chevaux fan clubs worldwide.
Burstin said he has been deluged with reports of snail sightings.
With Congress stalled by factionalism and competing special interests, it seemed both necessary and prudent for the regulators to increase the snail's pace of deregulation through imaginative interpretation of ancient law.
A woman celebrating her birthday was burned and temporarily blinded by a snail that exploded on her plate at a city restaurant, police said Saturday.
Detained for up to seven years without bail, with the INS considering their pleas for release at a snail's pace, and faced with the sudden prospect of wholesale deportation to Cuba, the Marielitos turned to violence.
It's a snail," retorts Roy Groves, founder of The Snail Center, a Welsh-based group that claims 300 members worldwide, including 40 British farmers breeding achatina indoors in pens.
Come to think of it, he added, he was the world's foremost snail geneticist; there were almost no others. In the event, I forgot about snails.
Dozens of tiny snail farms are popping up across Britain, and the growing interest in the new industry is threatening an escargot glut.
We would welcome that.' In a further attempt to speed the 'snail's pace' of the JLG work, Mr Patten outlined a raft of issues on which Hong Kong would provide practical aid to the incoming government and related bodies ahead of the transition.
Prizes also will be awarded for the heaviest and best-dressed snail.
In this sense, some fear that the snail's-pace recovery is providing a taste of things to come.
Perched vertically atop a huge transporter with a tank-like tread, Atlantis headed out of an assembly building into the darkness shortly after 1 a.m., completing the snail's-pace, four-mile trip seven hours later at Launch Pad 39B.
If catfish farming is a fast-growing business in some parts of the United States, can snail ranching be far behind?

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