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单词 anthill
释义
Examples from literature
  • One anthill is very much like another.
  • Some large anthills, and very small palm trees, not six feet in height, were noticed for the first time so far south.
  • The great anthill was troubled to its very lowest depth.
  • The slope resembled an anthill.
  • The whole country, both hill and valley, wood and plain, abounds with anthills, some of which are six or eight feet high, and twice as much in circumference.

Examplesofanthill

anthill
They were then kept in artificial anthills until their dissection in the following days.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Ants were collected from anthills or plants to which they were attached.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The most frequently occurring position for these workers was head down and on plants in the south-eastern part of theanthill.
From theCambridge English Corpus
On several occasions, he reminded me of a child stirring ananthillwith a stick just to see what the reaction would be.
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Meanwhile, lower down in theanthill, the population begins to seethe with anger.
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I should not care to live in a country where the individual was regarded merely as a sort of ant in ananthill.
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The team that is currently in charge of the nation's most priceless assets is more like a quintet of deserted anthills.
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There he sat, on ananthillnearby the site where his body lies buried now.
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The real issue here is not just the ending of the direct grant, it is another step towards theanthillsociety.
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They are the busiest route in ouranthill.
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We have stumbled on ananthillwhich contains more ants than we expected to find.
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Two anthills would be near if they were two feet apart; two villages would be near if they were two miles apart.
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But in due course they will build the roof over theanthillagain, and it is necessary to make sure that what goes on inside is correct.
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I am quite certain that we have scratched the top of thisanthillvery severely, because the spectacle of the ants scurrying about is there for all to see.
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We are becoming ants in ananthill.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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