cockroach

• n. [昆] 蟑螂

來自西班牙語cucaracha, 擬聲詞，模仿甲蟲聲音。拚寫俗化為cock和roach（一種鯉魚）。

cockroach

cockroach: [17] Cockroach is a product of folk etymology, the process by which a ‘foreign’ – sounding is adapted by speakers of a language so as to seem more familiar. In this case the foreign word was Spanish cucaracha. This was evidently too much for 17th-century English tongues, so the first element was transformed into cock and the second to roach (presumably after the freshwater fish of that name). Modern English roach ‘butt of a marijuana cigarette’ [20] is probably an abbreviation of cockroach, but this is not certain.

cockroach (n.)

1620s, folk etymology (as if from cock + roach) of Spanish cucaracha "chafer, beetle," from cuca "kind of caterpillar." Folk etymology also holds that the first element is from caca "excrement."

A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, "Virginia," 1624].

1. She was forced to live in a cockroach - infested house.

她被迫住在一間蟑螂成群的房子裏.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. A species of cockroach sprays a substance , ethylacrolein, that is a kind of tear gas.

某種蟑螂噴射一種催淚性毒氣――乙 基丙烯 醛.

來自辭典例句

3. You must be tough as a cockroach to survive my attack wave.

你這隻臭蟑螂還挺強硬頂住了我的衝擊波.

來自電影對白

4. The Cockroach, is me, changed from the spell of a sorcerer.

蟑螂 ﹐ 也就是“我” ﹐ 被魔法師施了咒語之後才變成蟑螂的.

來自互聯網

5. By accident, the Apollo mission brought a cockroach into space.

阿波羅號在執行任務時意外地把一隻蟑螂帶進了太空.

來自互聯網