tadpole
/ˈtædpəʊl/ (bre, ipa) · [tˈædpˌol] /ˈtædpəʊl/ (ame, ipa) · [tˈædpˌol] /ˈtad-ˌpōl How to pronounce tadpole (audio)/ (ame, mw)
tadpole — 名詞
- tadpolesingular
- tadpolesplural
1. the water-dwelling young of frogs and toads, with a round body, a long tail, and
蝌蚪
青蛙或蟾蜍的幼體，生活在水裡
the water-dwelling young of frogs and toads, with a round body, a long tail, and no legs at first
Paloma caught a tadpole in the pond behind her grandmother's house.
Paloma 在祖母家後面的池塘裡抓到一隻蝌蚪。
Zuri watched the tadpole grow legs and turn into a tiny frog.
Zuri 看著蝌蚪長出腿來，變成一隻小青蛙。
watch + noun + bare infinitive: 'watched the tadpole grow'
A tadpole wriggled between the rocks at the edge of the stream.
一隻蝌蚪在小溪邊的石頭間扭動著。
In spring, the pond behind the school was full of tadpoles.
春天時，學校後面的池塘裡滿是蝌蚪。
By late summer, every tadpole in the ditch had become a small toad.
到了夏末，水溝裡的每隻蝌蚪都變成了小蟾蜍。
- polliwog
dialectal and dated; used mainly in American English, far less common than tadpole