Definition of butterfly in English:

butterfly

nounPlural butterfliesˈbʌtəflʌɪˈbədərˌflaɪ

1A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.
Superfamilies Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea, order Lepidoptera: several families. Formerly placed in a grouping known as the Rhopalocera
Example sentencesExamples
- The toxins derived from this variety are toxic only to the larvae of butterflies and moths.
- Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies.
- The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly's wing as a background to the larger white silhouette.
- This is a bacteria that is only harmful to Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths.
- There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths.
- The Peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, which feeds on heather.
- As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds.
- These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
- Large numbers of butterflies and moths are flying in most fields and another generation of many pests is likely.
- Bombyx shares this problem with other moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera).
- Tiny scales cover the adult butterfly's wings that aid them during these critical searches.
- In his museum at Tring, which is just north-west of London, he had two and a quarter million butterflies and moths alone.
- There were colourful butterflies, moths, monkeys and lizards and for visitors all this wonderful wildlife could be seem from walkways strung high in the air from the upper branches.
- She brought with her a collection of bees, butterflies, flies, moths, and others.
- In the windows passers-by will see a plethora of wildlife, including butterflies, insects and moths, which have lived in the building at one point in its history.
- They are absurd, attractive, brightly coloured butterflies about to be pinned down by the coming conflict in Europe.
- We find many examples of this in insects, such as butterflies and Orthopterans.
- Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees.
- For example, the differences between forewings and hindwings of insects with two pairs of wings, such as butterflies, are probably regulated by the Ubx gene.
- Where have all the butterflies, moths and bees gone?
1. 1.1as modifier Having a two-lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly.
  蝴蝶状
  a butterfly clip
  蝴蝶状别针。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ji Ah's eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings, and were laced with delicate blue veins, and defined by thick lashes.
  Bizcochito, an anise-flavored sugar cookie molded by hand into a butterfly shape.
  To make butterfly, moth, or dragonfly wings, cut vellum into symmetrical curves.
  The butterfly hair clip, however, lay with wings down on her dresser, as if mocking her resolve.
  This recipe will make a Victoria sandwich or alternatively will make approximately 18 butterfly cakes.
  Her long, straight blond hair was piled messily on top of her head and twinkled with sparkly butterfly clips and hairpins.
  She had jazzed up her short curls with butterfly clips.
  The box stated that it made 16 butterfly cakes, which are basically plain fairy cakes, with the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top of the cake is halved and put back on to look like wings.
  Of course, the tiny, sparkly magenta butterfly clips in the man's hair still bothered Kyle a bit.
  My brother's blue wide apart butterfly wing eyes, a lazy eye made them look wider, and curly eyelashes.
  I twisted back half my hair with 3 butterfly clips and left the rest long and curly.
  Examples for this progress are the discovery of the genetic basis for the evolution of butterfly wing patterns and for the evolution of arthropod body regions.
  Just then Delilah skipped up, her blonde hair pulled back into sparkly butterfly clips.
  Tina Hyland was wearing butterfly clips in her hair.
  When you stand and look down at the seed bed you see butterfly shapes strung along a black pipe, for the water has gently washed the ground into four linked circles at each irrigation point.
  All the bauhinias have two-lobed butterfly leaves.
  Back on the ground, we sat up straight and drew our feet together into a butterfly.
  Is it because the shop was out of butterfly clips?
  Her long bangs stayed in place, pulled back by dark purple butterfly clips.
  She shuddered slightly and I dug through the basket on the back of the toilet, pulling out a butterfly clip and pulling back her bangs with it before staring to braid the rest.
2. 1.2 A showy or frivolous person.
  爱炫耀的人；举止轻浮的人
  a social butterfly
  交际花。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Friday still will be family night, although our daughter, Adrienne, is 14 and has become a social butterfly.
  I always had friends, but I was never a social butterfly.
  In result, she's the social butterfly of our little triangle.
  And the page was not the preferred location for social butterflies.
  Even though I was a social butterfly for the most part, any time I didn't have anything to do, I would drink.
  I have decided that I'm not cut out to be a social butterfly.
  If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly.
  Beth has never exactly been the social butterfly.
  But Max, who is actually much more of a social butterfly than I am, insisted.
  It started off like any other school year; Liz being a social butterfly, and me being totally silent around her other friends.
  Are you kind of a social butterfly, do you think?
  She seemed a social butterfly to him, and in one morning, she had already been invited to five places, and she assured all five people she'd call them and discuss details.
  We're not social butterflies so we don't do all that much of that.
  Social butterflies were in their element during Seniors Week 2002, which came to a close on the weekend.
  As I've already said, I'm not exactly a social butterfly.
  I not a social butterfly per se, but I like to go out.
  And while I'm the first to admit that I'm not a social butterfly or anything, I'm not really hated either.
  Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna.
  After years of hiding away, will they suddenly become social butterflies, ready to take on the world?
  The social butterfly was also a very hard worker.
3. 1.3butterfliesinformal A fluttering and nauseous sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous.
  〈非正式〉（紧张引起的）欲呕感
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their eyes locked and Lily felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  The way Michael was looking Jessica over made the butterflies in her stomach flutter and spin.
  Lethya walked down the hall, butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  With butterflies fluttering in their stomachs, pupils flocked to their schools to find out if all their hard work had paid off.
  His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it.
  My heart was beating against the walls of my rib cage and there was a flutter of butterflies in my stomach.
  Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach.
  I exclaimed with a smile trying to hide the nervous butterflies in my stomach.
  My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered.
  No, I was thinking about how the light shined into his hair and how his nervous chuckle caused butterflies in my stomach.
  I'm not yet a good driver, nor a completely confident one but at least the idea of doing it no longer sets butterflies fluttering in my stomach.
  Amanda felt the butterflies in her stomach flutter their wings as she approached the stables.
  She felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach and she prayed they would never go away.
  I began to feel the beginnings of butterflies fluttering in my stomach.
  The rest of the week flew by, and as Friday rehearsal rolled around, I was getting nervous butterflies in my stomach.
  This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach.
  Marie shook her head; trying to ward off the butterflies fluttering nervously about in her stomach.
  His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, which sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith.
  He still felt a great sensation of butterflies in his stomach though, now more so than ever, as he had no idea what to expect.
  Synonyms
  nervousness, nerves, fit of nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, fretfulness, restlessness, fidgeting, trembling, shaking, jumpiness
2A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.
蝶泳
Example sentencesExamples
- When swimming the butterfly, the breathing pattern all depends on the hips.
- She then backed up to win a bronze medal behind the USA's Thompson in the 50m butterfly in a time of 26.53.
- Her only weak stroke was the butterfly, and this stood in the way of her improving in the IM events.
- Two kicks give roughly the same distance as a full butterfly stroke.
- In butterfly, shoulder flexibility can facilitate the arm recovery and can save energy for the important underwater pull.
- Performing drills that focus on breathing, timing and acceleration can help a swimmer grasp the finer points of swimming butterfly.
- In the butterfly, Marshall ranks among the national leaders, as does Torpey.
- Any swimming stroke will help improve your stride, but the butterfly translates best to cross-country skiing.
- For butterfly, your hands will continue to press the water under your body.
- After you've taught the butterfly, add dolphin kick on the back to backstroke instruction.
- She is also the only woman to have won golds in three different strokes - freestyle, backstroke and butterfly.
- Backstroke and butterfly are OK, but they're not as good as the other two.
- The other butterfly champs, Jedrejczak and Kammerling, finished second and third.
- He was second in freestyle, third in both backstroke and butterfly and fourth in breaststroke.
- Reese predicts that the bulk of the team's points will come from middle distance freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and diving.
- If you take a forward breath in butterfly, the idea is to keep your eyes down and your head low.
- Jenny's freestyle refinements might not have happened if she had not been hungry to swim a better butterfly.
- This includes butterfly obviously another dangerous swimming stroke!
- This exercise also plays a vital role in swimming during stroke recovery in the freestyle, butterfly and backstroke.
- In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley.

verbbutterflies, butterflying, butterfliedˈbʌtəflʌɪˈbədərˌflaɪ

[with object]

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat.
切开摊平（肉块）
butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife
Example sentencesExamples
- When ordered, the hot dogs are split lengthwise and butterflied on the grill for one last blast of heat.
- We decided to go with the 12-pounder and the man cut its head off, cut its tail off, shaved off the scales, butterflied it and deboned it.
- The red snapper we had chosen came to the table deboned and butterflied, where it was served onto our plates with a garnish of endive, radicchio, lemon wedges and capers.
- Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness.
- These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants.
- He carries lamb in medallions, butterflied, frenched, minced, diced, sliced and stroganoffed.
- So I butterflied it - yielding two pieces that were about 1/2 an inch thick.
- Generally in Tasmania fresh quail is sold butterflied.
- The only fried food I took issue with here was the shrimp, butterflied and flattened to the point where any juices they had once possessed were only a memory.
- We had some the other night as a treat, butterflied and grilled.

Origin

Old English, from butter + fly²; perhaps from the cream or yellow colour of common species, or from an old belief that the insects stole butter.

The word butter has been known in Britain since Saxon times. It goes back to Greek bouturon, and before that possibly to the Scythians, an ancient people from the area of the Black Sea. The butterfly may get its name from the brimstone butterfly and other yellow or cream-coloured butterflies. The idea of likening a feeling of nervousness to having a butterfly or butterflies in one's stomach dates from the early 20th century, though the exact formulation butterflies in one's stomach is not recorded before the 1950s. The boxing strategy of Muhammad Ali was famously described as ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’. The quote first appeared in The Cassius Clay Story (1964—Cassius Clay was Ali's original name), and is thought to have been coined by Ali's trainer Drew ‘Bundini’ Brown. See also chaos

Definition of butterfly in US English:

butterfly

nounˈbədərˌflīˈbədərˌflaɪ

1A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly colored wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.
Superfamilies Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea, order Lepidoptera: several families. Formerly placed in a grouping known as the Rhopalocera
Example sentencesExamples
- Tiny scales cover the adult butterfly's wings that aid them during these critical searches.
- As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds.
- Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees.
- In his museum at Tring, which is just north-west of London, he had two and a quarter million butterflies and moths alone.
- She brought with her a collection of bees, butterflies, flies, moths, and others.
- Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies.
- These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
- For example, the differences between forewings and hindwings of insects with two pairs of wings, such as butterflies, are probably regulated by the Ubx gene.
- Bombyx shares this problem with other moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera).
- There were colourful butterflies, moths, monkeys and lizards and for visitors all this wonderful wildlife could be seem from walkways strung high in the air from the upper branches.
- There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths.
- Where have all the butterflies, moths and bees gone?
- The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly's wing as a background to the larger white silhouette.
- This is a bacteria that is only harmful to Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths.
- In the windows passers-by will see a plethora of wildlife, including butterflies, insects and moths, which have lived in the building at one point in its history.
- We find many examples of this in insects, such as butterflies and Orthopterans.
- Large numbers of butterflies and moths are flying in most fields and another generation of many pests is likely.
- The Peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, which feeds on heather.
- The toxins derived from this variety are toxic only to the larvae of butterflies and moths.
- They are absurd, attractive, brightly coloured butterflies about to be pinned down by the coming conflict in Europe.
1. 1.1as modifier Having a two-lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly.
  蝴蝶状
  a butterfly clip
  蝴蝶状别针。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bizcochito, an anise-flavored sugar cookie molded by hand into a butterfly shape.
  This recipe will make a Victoria sandwich or alternatively will make approximately 18 butterfly cakes.
  She had jazzed up her short curls with butterfly clips.
  Just then Delilah skipped up, her blonde hair pulled back into sparkly butterfly clips.
  Back on the ground, we sat up straight and drew our feet together into a butterfly.
  The box stated that it made 16 butterfly cakes, which are basically plain fairy cakes, with the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top of the cake is halved and put back on to look like wings.
  Her long, straight blond hair was piled messily on top of her head and twinkled with sparkly butterfly clips and hairpins.
  Tina Hyland was wearing butterfly clips in her hair.
  To make butterfly, moth, or dragonfly wings, cut vellum into symmetrical curves.
  When you stand and look down at the seed bed you see butterfly shapes strung along a black pipe, for the water has gently washed the ground into four linked circles at each irrigation point.
  I twisted back half my hair with 3 butterfly clips and left the rest long and curly.
  The butterfly hair clip, however, lay with wings down on her dresser, as if mocking her resolve.
  Her long bangs stayed in place, pulled back by dark purple butterfly clips.
  All the bauhinias have two-lobed butterfly leaves.
  She shuddered slightly and I dug through the basket on the back of the toilet, pulling out a butterfly clip and pulling back her bangs with it before staring to braid the rest.
  My brother's blue wide apart butterfly wing eyes, a lazy eye made them look wider, and curly eyelashes.
  Ji Ah's eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings, and were laced with delicate blue veins, and defined by thick lashes.
  Examples for this progress are the discovery of the genetic basis for the evolution of butterfly wing patterns and for the evolution of arthropod body regions.
  Is it because the shop was out of butterfly clips?
  Of course, the tiny, sparkly magenta butterfly clips in the man's hair still bothered Kyle a bit.
2. 1.2 A showy or frivolous person.
  爱炫耀的人；举止轻浮的人
  a social butterfly
  交际花。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And while I'm the first to admit that I'm not a social butterfly or anything, I'm not really hated either.
  The social butterfly was also a very hard worker.
  In result, she's the social butterfly of our little triangle.
  And the page was not the preferred location for social butterflies.
  After years of hiding away, will they suddenly become social butterflies, ready to take on the world?
  We're not social butterflies so we don't do all that much of that.
  But Max, who is actually much more of a social butterfly than I am, insisted.
  I have decided that I'm not cut out to be a social butterfly.
  Beth has never exactly been the social butterfly.
  Are you kind of a social butterfly, do you think?
  She seemed a social butterfly to him, and in one morning, she had already been invited to five places, and she assured all five people she'd call them and discuss details.
  It started off like any other school year; Liz being a social butterfly, and me being totally silent around her other friends.
  If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly.
  Even though I was a social butterfly for the most part, any time I didn't have anything to do, I would drink.
  Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna.
  As I've already said, I'm not exactly a social butterfly.
  Friday still will be family night, although our daughter, Adrienne, is 14 and has become a social butterfly.
  Social butterflies were in their element during Seniors Week 2002, which came to a close on the weekend.
  I always had friends, but I was never a social butterfly.
  I not a social butterfly per se, but I like to go out.
3. 1.3butterfliesinformal A fluttering and nauseous sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous.
  〈非正式〉（紧张引起的）欲呕感
  Example sentencesExamples
  Amanda felt the butterflies in her stomach flutter their wings as she approached the stables.
  This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach.
  The way Michael was looking Jessica over made the butterflies in her stomach flutter and spin.
  With butterflies fluttering in their stomachs, pupils flocked to their schools to find out if all their hard work had paid off.
  Their eyes locked and Lily felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, which sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  I exclaimed with a smile trying to hide the nervous butterflies in my stomach.
  She felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach and she prayed they would never go away.
  Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith.
  Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach.
  He still felt a great sensation of butterflies in his stomach though, now more so than ever, as he had no idea what to expect.
  The rest of the week flew by, and as Friday rehearsal rolled around, I was getting nervous butterflies in my stomach.
  Marie shook her head; trying to ward off the butterflies fluttering nervously about in her stomach.
  No, I was thinking about how the light shined into his hair and how his nervous chuckle caused butterflies in my stomach.
  My heart was beating against the walls of my rib cage and there was a flutter of butterflies in my stomach.
  I began to feel the beginnings of butterflies fluttering in my stomach.
  Lethya walked down the hall, butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
  His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it.
  My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered.
  I'm not yet a good driver, nor a completely confident one but at least the idea of doing it no longer sets butterflies fluttering in my stomach.
  Synonyms
  nervousness, nerves, fit of nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, fretfulness, restlessness, fidgeting, trembling, shaking, jumpiness
2A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.
蝶泳
Example sentencesExamples
- This includes butterfly obviously another dangerous swimming stroke!
- She is also the only woman to have won golds in three different strokes - freestyle, backstroke and butterfly.
- After you've taught the butterfly, add dolphin kick on the back to backstroke instruction.
- In butterfly, shoulder flexibility can facilitate the arm recovery and can save energy for the important underwater pull.
- When swimming the butterfly, the breathing pattern all depends on the hips.
- Any swimming stroke will help improve your stride, but the butterfly translates best to cross-country skiing.
- In the butterfly, Marshall ranks among the national leaders, as does Torpey.
- Reese predicts that the bulk of the team's points will come from middle distance freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and diving.
- The other butterfly champs, Jedrejczak and Kammerling, finished second and third.
- Two kicks give roughly the same distance as a full butterfly stroke.
- If you take a forward breath in butterfly, the idea is to keep your eyes down and your head low.
- Jenny's freestyle refinements might not have happened if she had not been hungry to swim a better butterfly.
- He was second in freestyle, third in both backstroke and butterfly and fourth in breaststroke.
- Her only weak stroke was the butterfly, and this stood in the way of her improving in the IM events.
- Performing drills that focus on breathing, timing and acceleration can help a swimmer grasp the finer points of swimming butterfly.
- She then backed up to win a bronze medal behind the USA's Thompson in the 50m butterfly in a time of 26.53.
- For butterfly, your hands will continue to press the water under your body.
- Backstroke and butterfly are OK, but they're not as good as the other two.
- In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley.
- This exercise also plays a vital role in swimming during stroke recovery in the freestyle, butterfly and backstroke.

verbˈbədərˌflīˈbədərˌflaɪ

[with object]

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat.
切开摊平（肉块）
butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife
Example sentencesExamples
- We decided to go with the 12-pounder and the man cut its head off, cut its tail off, shaved off the scales, butterflied it and deboned it.
- The only fried food I took issue with here was the shrimp, butterflied and flattened to the point where any juices they had once possessed were only a memory.
- Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness.
- When ordered, the hot dogs are split lengthwise and butterflied on the grill for one last blast of heat.
- He carries lamb in medallions, butterflied, frenched, minced, diced, sliced and stroganoffed.
- We had some the other night as a treat, butterflied and grilled.
- So I butterflied it - yielding two pieces that were about 1/2 an inch thick.
- These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants.
- The red snapper we had chosen came to the table deboned and butterflied, where it was served onto our plates with a garnish of endive, radicchio, lemon wedges and capers.
- Generally in Tasmania fresh quail is sold butterflied.

Origin

Old English, from butter + fly; perhaps from the cream or yellow color of common species, or from an old belief that the insects stole butter.

单词	butterfly
释义	Definition of butterfly in English: butterfly nounPlural butterfliesˈbʌtəflʌɪˈbədərˌflaɪ 1A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. Superfamilies Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea, order Lepidoptera: several families. Formerly placed in a grouping known as the Rhopalocera Example sentencesExamples The toxins derived from this variety are toxic only to the larvae of butterflies and moths. Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies. The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly's wing as a background to the larger white silhouette. This is a bacteria that is only harmful to Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths. There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths. The Peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, which feeds on heather. As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds. These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats. Large numbers of butterflies and moths are flying in most fields and another generation of many pests is likely. Bombyx shares this problem with other moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera). Tiny scales cover the adult butterfly's wings that aid them during these critical searches. In his museum at Tring, which is just north-west of London, he had two and a quarter million butterflies and moths alone. There were colourful butterflies, moths, monkeys and lizards and for visitors all this wonderful wildlife could be seem from walkways strung high in the air from the upper branches. She brought with her a collection of bees, butterflies, flies, moths, and others. In the windows passers-by will see a plethora of wildlife, including butterflies, insects and moths, which have lived in the building at one point in its history. They are absurd, attractive, brightly coloured butterflies about to be pinned down by the coming conflict in Europe. We find many examples of this in insects, such as butterflies and Orthopterans. Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees. For example, the differences between forewings and hindwings of insects with two pairs of wings, such as butterflies, are probably regulated by the Ubx gene. Where have all the butterflies, moths and bees gone? 1.1as modifier Having a two-lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. 蝴蝶状 a butterfly clip 蝴蝶状别针。 Example sentencesExamples Ji Ah's eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings, and were laced with delicate blue veins, and defined by thick lashes. Bizcochito, an anise-flavored sugar cookie molded by hand into a butterfly shape. To make butterfly, moth, or dragonfly wings, cut vellum into symmetrical curves. The butterfly hair clip, however, lay with wings down on her dresser, as if mocking her resolve. This recipe will make a Victoria sandwich or alternatively will make approximately 18 butterfly cakes. Her long, straight blond hair was piled messily on top of her head and twinkled with sparkly butterfly clips and hairpins. She had jazzed up her short curls with butterfly clips. The box stated that it made 16 butterfly cakes, which are basically plain fairy cakes, with the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top of the cake is halved and put back on to look like wings. Of course, the tiny, sparkly magenta butterfly clips in the man's hair still bothered Kyle a bit. My brother's blue wide apart butterfly wing eyes, a lazy eye made them look wider, and curly eyelashes. I twisted back half my hair with 3 butterfly clips and left the rest long and curly. Examples for this progress are the discovery of the genetic basis for the evolution of butterfly wing patterns and for the evolution of arthropod body regions. Just then Delilah skipped up, her blonde hair pulled back into sparkly butterfly clips. Tina Hyland was wearing butterfly clips in her hair. When you stand and look down at the seed bed you see butterfly shapes strung along a black pipe, for the water has gently washed the ground into four linked circles at each irrigation point. All the bauhinias have two-lobed butterfly leaves. Back on the ground, we sat up straight and drew our feet together into a butterfly. Is it because the shop was out of butterfly clips? Her long bangs stayed in place, pulled back by dark purple butterfly clips. She shuddered slightly and I dug through the basket on the back of the toilet, pulling out a butterfly clip and pulling back her bangs with it before staring to braid the rest. 1.2 A showy or frivolous person. 爱炫耀的人；举止轻浮的人 a social butterfly 交际花。 Example sentencesExamples Friday still will be family night, although our daughter, Adrienne, is 14 and has become a social butterfly. I always had friends, but I was never a social butterfly. In result, she's the social butterfly of our little triangle. And the page was not the preferred location for social butterflies. Even though I was a social butterfly for the most part, any time I didn't have anything to do, I would drink. I have decided that I'm not cut out to be a social butterfly. If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly. Beth has never exactly been the social butterfly. But Max, who is actually much more of a social butterfly than I am, insisted. It started off like any other school year; Liz being a social butterfly, and me being totally silent around her other friends. Are you kind of a social butterfly, do you think? She seemed a social butterfly to him, and in one morning, she had already been invited to five places, and she assured all five people she'd call them and discuss details. We're not social butterflies so we don't do all that much of that. Social butterflies were in their element during Seniors Week 2002, which came to a close on the weekend. As I've already said, I'm not exactly a social butterfly. I not a social butterfly per se, but I like to go out. And while I'm the first to admit that I'm not a social butterfly or anything, I'm not really hated either. Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna. After years of hiding away, will they suddenly become social butterflies, ready to take on the world? The social butterfly was also a very hard worker. 1.3butterfliesinformal A fluttering and nauseous sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous. 〈非正式〉（紧张引起的）欲呕感 Example sentencesExamples Their eyes locked and Lily felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach. The way Michael was looking Jessica over made the butterflies in her stomach flutter and spin. Lethya walked down the hall, butterflies fluttering in her stomach. With butterflies fluttering in their stomachs, pupils flocked to their schools to find out if all their hard work had paid off. His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it. My heart was beating against the walls of my rib cage and there was a flutter of butterflies in my stomach. Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach. I exclaimed with a smile trying to hide the nervous butterflies in my stomach. My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered. No, I was thinking about how the light shined into his hair and how his nervous chuckle caused butterflies in my stomach. I'm not yet a good driver, nor a completely confident one but at least the idea of doing it no longer sets butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Amanda felt the butterflies in her stomach flutter their wings as she approached the stables. She felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach and she prayed they would never go away. I began to feel the beginnings of butterflies fluttering in my stomach. The rest of the week flew by, and as Friday rehearsal rolled around, I was getting nervous butterflies in my stomach. This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach. Marie shook her head; trying to ward off the butterflies fluttering nervously about in her stomach. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, which sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach. Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith. He still felt a great sensation of butterflies in his stomach though, now more so than ever, as he had no idea what to expect. Synonyms nervousness, nerves, fit of nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, fretfulness, restlessness, fidgeting, trembling, shaking, jumpiness 2A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together. 蝶泳 Example sentencesExamples When swimming the butterfly, the breathing pattern all depends on the hips. She then backed up to win a bronze medal behind the USA's Thompson in the 50m butterfly in a time of 26.53. Her only weak stroke was the butterfly, and this stood in the way of her improving in the IM events. Two kicks give roughly the same distance as a full butterfly stroke. In butterfly, shoulder flexibility can facilitate the arm recovery and can save energy for the important underwater pull. Performing drills that focus on breathing, timing and acceleration can help a swimmer grasp the finer points of swimming butterfly. In the butterfly, Marshall ranks among the national leaders, as does Torpey. Any swimming stroke will help improve your stride, but the butterfly translates best to cross-country skiing. For butterfly, your hands will continue to press the water under your body. After you've taught the butterfly, add dolphin kick on the back to backstroke instruction. She is also the only woman to have won golds in three different strokes - freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. Backstroke and butterfly are OK, but they're not as good as the other two. The other butterfly champs, Jedrejczak and Kammerling, finished second and third. He was second in freestyle, third in both backstroke and butterfly and fourth in breaststroke. Reese predicts that the bulk of the team's points will come from middle distance freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and diving. If you take a forward breath in butterfly, the idea is to keep your eyes down and your head low. Jenny's freestyle refinements might not have happened if she had not been hungry to swim a better butterfly. This includes butterfly obviously another dangerous swimming stroke! This exercise also plays a vital role in swimming during stroke recovery in the freestyle, butterfly and backstroke. In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley. verbbutterflies, butterflying, butterfliedˈbʌtəflʌɪˈbədərˌflaɪ [with object] Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat. 切开摊平（肉块） butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife Example sentencesExamples When ordered, the hot dogs are split lengthwise and butterflied on the grill for one last blast of heat. We decided to go with the 12-pounder and the man cut its head off, cut its tail off, shaved off the scales, butterflied it and deboned it. The red snapper we had chosen came to the table deboned and butterflied, where it was served onto our plates with a garnish of endive, radicchio, lemon wedges and capers. Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness. These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants. He carries lamb in medallions, butterflied, frenched, minced, diced, sliced and stroganoffed. So I butterflied it - yielding two pieces that were about 1/2 an inch thick. Generally in Tasmania fresh quail is sold butterflied. The only fried food I took issue with here was the shrimp, butterflied and flattened to the point where any juices they had once possessed were only a memory. We had some the other night as a treat, butterflied and grilled. Origin Old English, from butter + fly²; perhaps from the cream or yellow colour of common species, or from an old belief that the insects stole butter. The word butter has been known in Britain since Saxon times. It goes back to Greek bouturon, and before that possibly to the Scythians, an ancient people from the area of the Black Sea. The butterfly may get its name from the brimstone butterfly and other yellow or cream-coloured butterflies. The idea of likening a feeling of nervousness to having a butterfly or butterflies in one's stomach dates from the early 20th century, though the exact formulation butterflies in one's stomach is not recorded before the 1950s. The boxing strategy of Muhammad Ali was famously described as ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’. The quote first appeared in The Cassius Clay Story (1964—Cassius Clay was Ali's original name), and is thought to have been coined by Ali's trainer Drew ‘Bundini’ Brown. See also chaos Definition of butterfly in US English: butterfly nounˈbədərˌflīˈbədərˌflaɪ 1A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly colored wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day. Superfamilies Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea, order Lepidoptera: several families. Formerly placed in a grouping known as the Rhopalocera Example sentencesExamples Tiny scales cover the adult butterfly's wings that aid them during these critical searches. As well as their important compost-creating role, nettles also provide excellent food for some butterflies and moths and are much-loved by ladybirds. Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees. In his museum at Tring, which is just north-west of London, he had two and a quarter million butterflies and moths alone. She brought with her a collection of bees, butterflies, flies, moths, and others. Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies. These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats. For example, the differences between forewings and hindwings of insects with two pairs of wings, such as butterflies, are probably regulated by the Ubx gene. Bombyx shares this problem with other moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera). There were colourful butterflies, moths, monkeys and lizards and for visitors all this wonderful wildlife could be seem from walkways strung high in the air from the upper branches. There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths. Where have all the butterflies, moths and bees gone? The real kicker for this cover is its silvery, holographic pattern of a butterfly's wing as a background to the larger white silhouette. This is a bacteria that is only harmful to Lepidoptera - butterflies and moths. In the windows passers-by will see a plethora of wildlife, including butterflies, insects and moths, which have lived in the building at one point in its history. We find many examples of this in insects, such as butterflies and Orthopterans. Large numbers of butterflies and moths are flying in most fields and another generation of many pests is likely. The Peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, which feeds on heather. The toxins derived from this variety are toxic only to the larvae of butterflies and moths. They are absurd, attractive, brightly coloured butterflies about to be pinned down by the coming conflict in Europe. 1.1as modifier Having a two-lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. 蝴蝶状 a butterfly clip 蝴蝶状别针。 Example sentencesExamples Bizcochito, an anise-flavored sugar cookie molded by hand into a butterfly shape. This recipe will make a Victoria sandwich or alternatively will make approximately 18 butterfly cakes. She had jazzed up her short curls with butterfly clips. Just then Delilah skipped up, her blonde hair pulled back into sparkly butterfly clips. Back on the ground, we sat up straight and drew our feet together into a butterfly. The box stated that it made 16 butterfly cakes, which are basically plain fairy cakes, with the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top of the cake is halved and put back on to look like wings. Her long, straight blond hair was piled messily on top of her head and twinkled with sparkly butterfly clips and hairpins. Tina Hyland was wearing butterfly clips in her hair. To make butterfly, moth, or dragonfly wings, cut vellum into symmetrical curves. When you stand and look down at the seed bed you see butterfly shapes strung along a black pipe, for the water has gently washed the ground into four linked circles at each irrigation point. I twisted back half my hair with 3 butterfly clips and left the rest long and curly. The butterfly hair clip, however, lay with wings down on her dresser, as if mocking her resolve. Her long bangs stayed in place, pulled back by dark purple butterfly clips. All the bauhinias have two-lobed butterfly leaves. She shuddered slightly and I dug through the basket on the back of the toilet, pulling out a butterfly clip and pulling back her bangs with it before staring to braid the rest. My brother's blue wide apart butterfly wing eyes, a lazy eye made them look wider, and curly eyelashes. Ji Ah's eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings, and were laced with delicate blue veins, and defined by thick lashes. Examples for this progress are the discovery of the genetic basis for the evolution of butterfly wing patterns and for the evolution of arthropod body regions. Is it because the shop was out of butterfly clips? Of course, the tiny, sparkly magenta butterfly clips in the man's hair still bothered Kyle a bit. 1.2 A showy or frivolous person. 爱炫耀的人；举止轻浮的人 a social butterfly 交际花。 Example sentencesExamples And while I'm the first to admit that I'm not a social butterfly or anything, I'm not really hated either. The social butterfly was also a very hard worker. In result, she's the social butterfly of our little triangle. And the page was not the preferred location for social butterflies. After years of hiding away, will they suddenly become social butterflies, ready to take on the world? We're not social butterflies so we don't do all that much of that. But Max, who is actually much more of a social butterfly than I am, insisted. I have decided that I'm not cut out to be a social butterfly. Beth has never exactly been the social butterfly. Are you kind of a social butterfly, do you think? She seemed a social butterfly to him, and in one morning, she had already been invited to five places, and she assured all five people she'd call them and discuss details. It started off like any other school year; Liz being a social butterfly, and me being totally silent around her other friends. If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly. Even though I was a social butterfly for the most part, any time I didn't have anything to do, I would drink. Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna. As I've already said, I'm not exactly a social butterfly. Friday still will be family night, although our daughter, Adrienne, is 14 and has become a social butterfly. Social butterflies were in their element during Seniors Week 2002, which came to a close on the weekend. I always had friends, but I was never a social butterfly. I not a social butterfly per se, but I like to go out. 1.3butterfliesinformal A fluttering and nauseous sensation felt in the stomach when one is nervous. 〈非正式〉（紧张引起的）欲呕感 Example sentencesExamples Amanda felt the butterflies in her stomach flutter their wings as she approached the stables. This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach. The way Michael was looking Jessica over made the butterflies in her stomach flutter and spin. With butterflies fluttering in their stomachs, pupils flocked to their schools to find out if all their hard work had paid off. Their eyes locked and Lily felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, which sent butterflies fluttering in her stomach. I exclaimed with a smile trying to hide the nervous butterflies in my stomach. She felt the butterflies fluttering in her stomach and she prayed they would never go away. Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith. Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach. He still felt a great sensation of butterflies in his stomach though, now more so than ever, as he had no idea what to expect. The rest of the week flew by, and as Friday rehearsal rolled around, I was getting nervous butterflies in my stomach. Marie shook her head; trying to ward off the butterflies fluttering nervously about in her stomach. No, I was thinking about how the light shined into his hair and how his nervous chuckle caused butterflies in my stomach. My heart was beating against the walls of my rib cage and there was a flutter of butterflies in my stomach. I began to feel the beginnings of butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Lethya walked down the hall, butterflies fluttering in her stomach. His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it. My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered. I'm not yet a good driver, nor a completely confident one but at least the idea of doing it no longer sets butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Synonyms nervousness, nerves, fit of nerves, edginess, uneasiness, anxiety, anxiousness, tension, agitation, fretfulness, restlessness, fidgeting, trembling, shaking, jumpiness 2A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together. 蝶泳 Example sentencesExamples This includes butterfly obviously another dangerous swimming stroke! She is also the only woman to have won golds in three different strokes - freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. After you've taught the butterfly, add dolphin kick on the back to backstroke instruction. In butterfly, shoulder flexibility can facilitate the arm recovery and can save energy for the important underwater pull. When swimming the butterfly, the breathing pattern all depends on the hips. Any swimming stroke will help improve your stride, but the butterfly translates best to cross-country skiing. In the butterfly, Marshall ranks among the national leaders, as does Torpey. Reese predicts that the bulk of the team's points will come from middle distance freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and diving. The other butterfly champs, Jedrejczak and Kammerling, finished second and third. Two kicks give roughly the same distance as a full butterfly stroke. If you take a forward breath in butterfly, the idea is to keep your eyes down and your head low. Jenny's freestyle refinements might not have happened if she had not been hungry to swim a better butterfly. He was second in freestyle, third in both backstroke and butterfly and fourth in breaststroke. Her only weak stroke was the butterfly, and this stood in the way of her improving in the IM events. Performing drills that focus on breathing, timing and acceleration can help a swimmer grasp the finer points of swimming butterfly. She then backed up to win a bronze medal behind the USA's Thompson in the 50m butterfly in a time of 26.53. For butterfly, your hands will continue to press the water under your body. Backstroke and butterfly are OK, but they're not as good as the other two. In the open gala, Amy Clayden produced superb form to claim gold in the butterfly, backstroke and freestyle and a silver in the individual medley. This exercise also plays a vital role in swimming during stroke recovery in the freestyle, butterfly and backstroke. verbˈbədərˌflīˈbədərˌflaɪ [with object] Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat. 切开摊平（肉块） butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife Example sentencesExamples We decided to go with the 12-pounder and the man cut its head off, cut its tail off, shaved off the scales, butterflied it and deboned it. The only fried food I took issue with here was the shrimp, butterflied and flattened to the point where any juices they had once possessed were only a memory. Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness. When ordered, the hot dogs are split lengthwise and butterflied on the grill for one last blast of heat. He carries lamb in medallions, butterflied, frenched, minced, diced, sliced and stroganoffed. We had some the other night as a treat, butterflied and grilled. So I butterflied it - yielding two pieces that were about 1/2 an inch thick. These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants. The red snapper we had chosen came to the table deboned and butterflied, where it was served onto our plates with a garnish of endive, radicchio, lemon wedges and capers. Generally in Tasmania fresh quail is sold butterflied. Origin Old English, from butter + fly; perhaps from the cream or yellow color of common species, or from an old belief that the insects stole butter.
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