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单词 centipede
释义
centipede
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tɪ.piːd/us
/ˈsen.t̬ə.piːd/
asmall,long,thinanimalwith manylegs
蜈蚣，百足虫
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(Definition ofcentipedefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • A centipede walks on many small legs, and it can even run if there is danger.
  • Centipedes also have two larger, special legs that they use to catch and eat their food – like teeth!
  • Centipedes have even more legs than insects do.
  • Centipedes walk on many, many legs!
  • Millipedes have more legs than centipedes, but millipedes move slowly because they have short legs that can’t go very far.
  • The word centipede means “one hundred feet,” but some centipedes have only thirty feet, whereas others have three hundred!
  • A big centipede—it was seven inches, for we measured it afterwards—fell from the rafters overhead squarely into her coiffure.
  • All those found in the Northern States are perfectly harmless, the true centipede, whose bite is reputed much more venomous than it really is, being found only in the South.
  • But with the exception of these tormenting insects, and a rather alarming variety of centipedes, scorpions, and spiders, we have no venomous creatures to disturb us.
  • He found a centipede in the garden and pressed it into her hand on the way to school.
  • There was a bee weighing down a blossom of thyme close by, and underneath the stalk a very ugly little centipede.

centipede| American Dictionary

centipede
noun[C]
us
/ˈsent·əˌpid/
asmallanimallike awormwith along,thinbodyand manylegs
(Definition ofcentipedefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcentipede

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Now, both the surprise exam argument and the backwards induction in thecentipedegame are problematic.
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The foolishness is glaring in the case of finitely iterated prisoners' dilemmas orcentipedegames.
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Thecentipedegame and its backwards induction are just, of course, a particular instance of this.
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Sad to say, there are quite a few grammaticallydistracted centipedes in the world.
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In the final section of the paper, the lessons learned from this analysis are applied to backwards induction in thecentipedeargument, and to game theory in general.
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If the induction worked in the general case, it would work in the particular case of thecentipedegame + which, as we have seen, it does not.
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I do not want to be thought to treat this in any way lightheartedly, but the lines about thecentipedereally are relevant.
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I hope that it is a cycle, not acentipede.
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A chromosome may be likened to acentipede.
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The days are very long; hours crawl like paralytic centipedes.
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I feel that the spirit of my petcentipedehas brooded over all our proceedings to-day.
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They also eat birds, bird eggs, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, and various fruits, including figs and olives.
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Centipededefences include their speed and venomous forcipules, as well as the secretion of defensive chemicals.
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Powers include a beetle shell armed with very strong pincers and spear-likecentipedelegs.
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She is a dark red dragon-like monster withcentipede-like legs and red bat wings.
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