toad: [OE] Toad is a mystery word, with no known relatives in any other Indo-European language. Of its derivatives, toady [19] is short for the earlier toad eater ‘sycophant’ [17]. This originated in the dubious selling methods of itinerant quack doctors. They employed an assistant who pretended to eat a toad (toads were thought to be poisonous), so that the quack could appear to effect a miraculous cure with his medicine.
The toad-eating assistant came to be a byword for ‘servility’ or ‘dependency’, and hence for ‘servile flattery’. Toadstools [14] were named for their stool-like shape, and also because of an association between poisonous fungi and the supposedly poisonous toad.
toad (n.)
c. 1300, from late Old English tadige, tadie, of unknown origin and according to OED with no known cognates outside English. Applied to loathsome persons from 1560s. Toad-strangler "heavy rain" is from 1919, U.S. Southern dialectal.
toad 英文释义
1. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
toad 双语例句
1. He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.
他把手伸进淤泥里捞摸，结果抓上来一只巨大的蟾蜍。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His eyes seemed to bulge like those of a toad.
他的眼睛鼓得像癞蛤蟆。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Both the toad and frog are amphibian.
蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The toad had changed its colour to blend in with its new environment.
蟾蜍已经变色，和新的环境融为一体。
来自柯林斯例句
5. The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted.
癞哈蟆现在意识到,他的所作所为实在太荒唐,太愚蠢了.
来自辞典例句
toad 实用场景例句
He's a toad a swan.
他真是癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉.
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Its main characters were a rat, a mole, and a toad.
其主要特征是一只老鼠, 一痣, 和蟾蜍.
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Next, the dormouse passes a toad with big, golden eyes.
接下来, 睡鼠来到了一只大的长着金色眼睛的蟾蜍身旁.
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Toad nodded once more, keeping silence.
蟾蜍又点了点头, 仍旧一言不发.
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The fire bellied toad genus , Bombina, with seven species, which spread throughout various Eurasiatic areas.
铃蟾属Bombina分布地跨欧亚二洲.
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Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring.
欧亚大陆的各种主要为绿色的蟾蜍.
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Huh? Oh no, if you touch a toad you'll get a bunch of bumps.
啊? 糟了, 被癞蛤蟆碰到,会长一粒一粒的东西.
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Both the toad and frog are amphibian.
蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物.
《简明英汉词典》
Mr. Toad is running fast.
弗罗戈先生跑得很快.
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And how they've been and taken Toad Hall ?'continued the Rat.
“你不知道,他们强占了蟾官? ”河鼠又说.
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If the significance is in the words, I think it must be the pickled toad.
如果深意蕴藏在歌词里, 我认为玄机应该在“刚腌过的癞蛤蟆”几个字里.
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When he gave Toad some flower seeds, Toad quickly ran home and planted them.
于是他送蟾蜍一些花种, 蟾蜍马上飞奔回家将它们种下.
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And Toad called them some very unpleasant names while this was going on.
蛤蟆一直很不高兴的叫著他们的名字骂骂咧咧的.
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When baked with sausages ( within the batter ), it is known as toad in the hole.
搭配香肠一起吃的时候, 它又被形象地称为洞中的蟾蜍.
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Toad began to sit up in his chair again, and to smirk a little.
癞蛤蟆坐在椅子上,又开始发出微微的憨笑.
辞典例句
The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted.
癞哈蟆现在意识到,他的所作所为实在太荒唐,太愚蠢了.
辞典例句
She often came to visit Toad, bringing him nice things to eat, and hot drinks.
她常常来看望蛤蟆, 给他带来一些好吃的, 还有热汤.
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Tell me about Toad Hall,'said she.'It'sounds beautiful.
“给我说说你的蟾宫吧, ”她说. “ 看来那是个美丽的地方. ”
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So Toad , fighting and shouting, was pulled upstairs by his two friends.
因而蛤蟆, 又打又叫的被他的两个朋友带到上楼.
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The Patient: Since I was a toad.
病人: 当我是蟾蜍的时候.
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You two must come with me immediately, and we will save Toad from this madness.
你们两个必须马上跟我去将蛤蟆从疯狂中解救出来.
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He was tired of Toad , and his sulks and his airs and his meanness.
他讨厌他那副阴阳怪气、装腔作势的卑劣相.
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When the toad sits still, everything goes blank.
当蟾蜍静坐时, 一切又荡然无存了.
辞典例句
The Toad Spirit now broke into hoarse and halting speech. " No, no, no matter!
虾蟆大仙说话老声老气的, 而且有些结巴: “ 不, 不, 不要紧!
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The toad had changed its colour to blend in with its new environment.
蟾蜍已经变色，和新的环境融为一体。
柯林斯例句
He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.
