spider

spider — 名詞

1. A small animal with eight legs. Spiders produce sticky silk threads from their b

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釋義

蜘蛛

八隻腳，會吐絲結網捕食的小動物

A small animal with eight legs. Spiders produce sticky silk threads from their bodies and use these threads to build webs, which trap insects and other tiny creatures for them to eat.

例句

Asher screamed when he saw a large spider crawling across the bathroom floor.

Asher 看到一隻大蜘蛛爬過浴室地板時，嚇得大叫。

crawl across + surface — typical movement verb

A small brown spider had spun a web between the fence and the old tree.

一隻棕色小蜘蛛在圍籬和老樹之間結了一張漂亮的網。

spin + web — the core collocation for building webs

同義詞
  • arachnid

    The scientific group name that includes spiders, scorpions, and mites. Much more formal and technical than 'spider'.

文法句型

spider + verb (singular or plural)

a/the spider + verb

用法筆記

Spider is a countable noun. Many people call spiders 'insects' in everyday conversation, but zoologists classify them as arachnids because they have eight legs instead of six and their bodies have two main parts instead of three.

常見錯誤

❌Spiders are insects with six legs.
✅Spiders are arachnids with eight legs.
💡Insects have six legs and three body parts; spiders have eight legs and two body parts.