汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 馬蹄蟹
馬蹄蟹 (马蹄蟹)
horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

200多万年前的马蹄蟹化石,与今天的马蹄蟹几乎完全相同:它们是三叶虫最近的亲戚。

Horseshoe crab fossils over 200 million years old are almost identical to contemporary animals: They are the closest living relatives of the trilobites.

为了抵御潮汐,幼年马蹄蟹经常在沙子里挖洞。

In order to withstand tidal currents, juvenile horseshoe crabs frequently burrow in the sand.

事实证明,红腹滨鹬没有吃到足够的马蹄蟹卵。

The knots, it turns out, aren't getting enough horseshoe crab eggs to eat.

地球上的大洋曾经到处都是类似于马蹄蟹的生物-三叶虫。

The earth's oceans were once filled with horse shoe crab-like critters called trilobites.

不可避免的结论是,渔民们正在逐渐把特拉华湾的马蹄蟹斩尽杀绝,造成可以养活水鸟的蟹卵的减少。

The inescapable conclusion is that fishers were depleting Delaware Bay's horseshoe crab population, causing a reduction in the number of horseshoe crab eggs upon which the shorebirds feed.

人们捕获和销售马蹄蟹作为更有利可图的鳗鱼和峨螺养殖业的诱饵。

People were capturing the crabs and selling them as bait for the more profitable eel and whelk fisheries.

左图,是古蜥蜴的牙齿,它是很多恐龙的直系祖先;右图,是一个完整的马蹄蟹的头盖骨。

The tooth of an archosaur, left, which was a direct ancestor of many dinosaurs, and the complete skeleton, including soft tissue of a horseshoe crab, right.

令人惊讶的是,在潮汐流很弱的地方,幼年马蹄蟹的藤壶数量并不多,尽管它们很少在洞里活动。

Surprisingly, in areas where tidal currents are very weak, juvenile horseshoe crabs are found not to have significant barnacle populations, even though they seldom burrow.

马蹄翻飞,扬起一片尘土。

The horses' hooves raised a cloud of dust.

较熟知的有寄居蟹、黄道蟹(英国和欧洲)、蓝蟹、首黄道蟹、招潮和堪察加拟石蟹。

Well-known crabs include the hermit crab, edible crab (Britain and Europe), blue crab, Dungeness crab, fiddler crab, and king crab.