snail

英 [sneɪl]

美 [sneɪl]

n. 蜗牛

复数：snails　

Collins.1 / BNC.8765 / COCA.10183

习惯用语

at a snail's pace

noun

蜗牛
a small soft creature with a hard round shell on its back, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants. Some types of snail can be eaten.

蜗牛
Asnailis a small animal with a long, soft body, no legs, and a spiral-shaped shell. Snails move very slowly.
PHRASE 慢吞吞地;缓慢地
If you say that someone does somethingat a snail's pace, you are emphasizing that they are doing it very slowly, usually when you think it would be better if they did it much more quickly.
1. The train was moving now at a snail's pace...
  火车这会儿走得跟蜗牛一样慢。
2. The economy grew at a snail's pace in the first three months of this year.
  今年第一季度经济增速缓慢。

noun

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
Synonym:escargot

verb

I have never been able to look at a snail since then.
从那以后，我再也不能看一眼蜗牛了。
The nutrimental composition of snail was detected and analyzed in this paper.
对青螺肉的营养成分进行了检测和分析。
I can only move very slowly because I am only a snail.
我只能慢吞吞地移动，因为我只是一只蜗牛。
A snail's pace is just fine with me.
蜗牛速度对我来说已经很好了。
She crumbled an empty snail shell in her fingers.
她用手指捏碎了一个空蜗牛壳。
There was once a snail who was sick and tired of his reputation for being so slow.
曾经有只蜗牛，它对自己动作慢的名声感到了厌恶和疲倦。
As a result, snail thought of a way, he would carry on the back of his house.
于是，蜗牛想到了一个办法，他将自己的房子背在背上。
When a snail crossed the road, he was run over by a turtle.
一个蜗牛过马路，被一个乌龟从身上碾过。
I confess it with shame& shrunk icily into myself, like a snail;
我羞愧地忏悔了&冷冰冰地退缩，像个蜗牛似的；
The snail creeps into the earth and hides.
蜗牛也爬进了地里躲了起来。