| 释义 |
Examples:cast off an old skin or shell—valency shell (chemistry)—ammonite (fossil spiral shell)—lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. vanish leaving an empty shell—parent shell (of a cluster bomb)—soft on the inside despite one's hard shell—tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination—Rumphius' slit shell (Entemnotrochus rumphii), found in Japan and Taiwan—Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), a critically endangered species—unexploded (of artillery shell etc)— |