| 释义 |
Examples:cast off an old skin or shell—ammonite (fossil spiral shell)—lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. vanish leaving an empty shell—soft on the inside despite one's hard shell—hawksbill shell-rimmed eyeglasses—tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination—electron shell (in the atom)—outer shell of electrons—shed egg-shell (of newly hatched chick)—Rumphius' slit shell (Entemnotrochus rumphii), found in Japan and Taiwan—shell as horn for signaling—Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), a critically endangered species— |