beetle
Word family adjectivebeetlingbeetleheadednounbeetleheadbeetle
Insects
bee·tle1 /ˈbiːtl/ noun [countableC] → betel
HBIan insect with a round hard back that is usually black 甲（壳）虫 →5 see picture at 见图 insectExamples from the Corpus
beetle• You know that story of the man who wakes up and finds he's turned into a beetle?• A group identity, the way they say black beetles do?• If you are curious about the bombardier beetle, by the way, what actually happens is as follows.• It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle.• The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey.• Three hundred thousand kinds of beetles are known, far more than any other group.• The presence of beetles is acknowledged as an indicator of the general health of the forest.• There also were beetles crawling on the ice in slow motion.
beetle2 verb [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] British EnglishBrE informal
HURRYto go somewhere quickly and leaning forward 急匆匆地走 SYN scurry
He went beetling off down the corridor.
他从走廊急匆匆地走掉了。
Examples from the Corpus
beetle• The little mouth was born with a scowl, the brows positively beetle over the turned-up be-ringed breathing apparatus.• They beetled past; a game to top each other's sniggers.• Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column, but I soon beetled the truth out of him.• It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion.
Beetlen British EnglishBrE (also Bug infml American EnglishAmE)
na small car made by Volkswagen which has a high, rounded top. It was first produced in the 1930s and has been popular ever since because of its unusual shape. In 1998 a Beetle with a completely new design went on sale.
Old English bitula, from bitan; → BITE1