| 单词 | hard-shelled |
| 例句 | He is named for the hard-shelled old man of the desert. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I imagined pulling back my hand, taut like a slingshot, and then launching the hard-shelled bombs at my rival. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z All day Alyce shook the young trees, climbed into the old ones, and gathered the hard-shelled bounty that fell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z No one else did either, except the hard-shelled technicians. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The game disappeared, taking shelter from the rain, and the men began foraging for whatever they could find: blood-drop berries, hard-shelled nuts, flightless birds with white-and-gray wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Its eggs are cement-coloured and particularly hard-shelled; the young club their way out using their tails, whose spikes are well developed at birth. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z About the circus atmosphere, Mr. Bernard once said winningly, “I can make a lofty tumbler out of any hard-shelled dyspeptic old crab.” Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z It took two officers to heft the hard-shelled creature into a patrol car. Police catch giant tortoise after short chase The fearless, hard-shelled Ida is determined to get to the bottom of the killing and picks up some clues while questioning Rose. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z But the hard-shelled reptile heroes, brought back to TV on a Nickelodeon show in 2012, crushed expectations for a domestic total of around $40 million. 'Turtles' beats Marvel's 'Guardians' at US, Canada box office 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Capuchin monkeys and macaques use stones to hammer open hard-shelled nuts and shellfish, respectively. Endangered Hawaiian crow shows a knack for tool use 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The fish, who are apparently somewhat elusive, use the teeth for eating barnacles and hard-shelled animals. Fish with giant human-looking teeth caught 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z As befits work from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, their songs are generally remembered as wisecracking and hard-shelled, breezy and cynical. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z The medley at the center of the show combines Ms. Allen’s “Fear” with Madonna’s “Material Girl” into a hard-shelled assertion of determination poisoned with anxiety. Music Review: Emily Bergl at the Oak Room - Review 2011-08-31T21:53:40Z The two share many qualities, including hard-shelled cynicism and a capacity for not giving two figs about criticism. Once More Into the Vaults: Blondie on the Music That Defined Its Legacy 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Some are gourds — hard-shelled, bitter, stringy and suitable only for decoration. Know Your Squash: How They Look, How They Cook 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But unlike past seasons, when idle cocktail chatter centered on the traffic, Eleven Madison Park, kid activities and celebrity spottings, a hard-shelled, surprisingly resilient uninvited guest has become everyone’s obsession: ticks, ticks, ticks. Ticked Off 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z While watching “Waiting for Forever,” I felt tentative stirrings of admiration for an indie movie that so aggressively flouts the hard-shelled conventions of romantic comedy. | 'Waiting for Forever': Undying Love in the Time of Arrested Development 2011-02-04T00:35:04Z His family were what used to be called “hard-shelled” Baptists, and they were caught up in the second great awakening, which swept the frontier and was really, quite frankly, violent. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z But underneath the hard-shelled cynicism of the hook-up age, she implied, the same currents of longing and loneliness still run deep. Music Review: The Kisses, the Bites, the Humor of Rodgers and Hart 2010-09-19T21:58:00Z The shells of the large, hard-shelled clam were used by the indigenous Narragansett people as wampum. In Rhode Island, a hunt is on for the reason for dropping numbers of the signature quahog clam 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Amphibians eventually evolved into reptiles once they developed hard-shelled eggs. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z When fully grown, these carnivorous creatures use their forelimbs to prey on hard-shelled mollusks and fish. See the Mysterious Sea Creatures that Only Come Up at Night 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The case is hard-shelled with a soft velvety interior and a molded form for the Deck to sit inside so it’s not bouncing around while zipped up in its case. My favorite thing about the Steam Deck is its ultra-portable case 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Enter OxyContin, a hard-shelled pill that released its powerful medication slowly and steadily, thus avoiding the peaks and troughs of pain relief that can foster addiction. Review | For the Sackler family, a dynasty built on medicine, marketing and pain 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The ability to lay the hard-shelled eggs that turned up later in the fossil record evolved tens of millions of years later, closer to their extinction than when non-avian dinosaurs first emerged. Life Hatched From Soft Eggs, Some a Foot Long, in Dinosaur Era 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z They would later evolve into reptiles that lay hard-shelled eggs on land. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The study, published in Nature, notes that the first dinosaur eggs were soft-shelled as opposed to hard-shelled, similar to the modern-day turtle. Early dinosaur eggs may have been 'soft like a turtle's,' study says 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Because hard-shelled, calcareous eggs, like those of birds, are reinforced by crystalline calcium carbonate, they are well represented in the fossil record. Hard evidence from soft fossil eggs 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But the Protoceratops nest shows that some species were still laying soft eggs toward the end of the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago, even as others evolved to lay hard-shelled eggs. Researchers say they've solved the mystery of the missing dinosaur eggs 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z That’s similar to the proportions seen in hard-shelled turtle eggs of modern-day freshwater or terrestrial species but totally unlike the proportions seen in today’s sea turtles. This is the first known sea turtle—and it laid hard eggs 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The largest turtle species in the U.S. and largest hard-shelled turtles in the world, alligator snappers are native to swamps and rivers from Florida to southern Illinois. Houston wildlife study reveals ‘ancient’ denizen of bayous 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z They are also surprisingly hard-shelled, with a coating, unique among insects, made of calcium oxalate—a substance that dissolves only under acidic conditions such as, for instance, in a digestive tract. Why Stick Insects Might Be Into Birds Eating Their Kids 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z A few dinosaur groups, including sauropods, laid hard-shelled eggs. Hard evidence from soft fossil eggs 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The larva stores its own waste to construct a pupal chamber, inside which it transitions into a hard-shelled beetle. Watch a Sausage-Size Insect Transform From Larva to Beetle 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s unclear why D. padillai laid hard-shelled eggs when today’s sea turtles don’t. This is the first known sea turtle—and it laid hard eggs 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It was about the size of a modern green sea turtle, and, as Gentry and colleagues conclude, and this reptile was along the evolutionary stem connected to today's hard-shelled sea turtles. Paleo Profile: Martin's Sea Turtle 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway talks scathingly about what he calls the “hard-shelled technicians” – the bullfight aficionados who care only for a certain kind of formal or technical perfection. Usain Bolt: now you see him, soon you won’t… 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z This finding challenges the generally accepted view that dinosaur eggs were always hard-shelled, in turn suggesting that the earliest eggs laid by dinosaurs were soft-shelled. Hard evidence from soft fossil eggs 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The marine mammals regularly prey on hard-shelled crustaceans, meaning they possess a multitude of sharp teeth inside powerful jaws that can deliver a serious bite. Watch Rescuers Free Seal Trapped By Fishing Line 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z This doesn't mean the end of hard-shelled robots. Snake on a plane! Don't panic, it's probably just a (soft) robot 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z A sea turtle related to the origin of today's hard-shelled sea turtles. Paleo Profile: Martin's Sea Turtle 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Each of these marine mammals carries a personal stone in the loose pouch of skin under its foreleg, and uses it to break open hard-shelled prey such as sea urchins, mussels, abalones, clams and snails. Endangered Hawaiian crows join elite list of animals known to use tools 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The hard-shelled crawlers move at an average speed of 0.2 miles per hour, and must dodge trucks and cars zipping along at 40-plus mph. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The legend of Blackie Sherrod was, in short, that of the hard-shelled newsman with a soft heart — or maybe it was the other way around. Blackie Sherrod, Texas Sportswriter His Peers Loved Swiping Lines From, Dies at 96 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z And even if soft robots find a niche, chances are they still won't replace all the jobs done by human or hard-shelled robots. Snake on a plane! Don't panic, it's probably just a (soft) robot 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The hard-shelled polycarbonate suitcase has foam inserts for wine bottles in various configurations so you can take your favorite bottles with you to wherever you're flying. 26 ideas for the foodie on your holiday gift list 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Durin’s watercolors bristle with a hard-shelled arsenal of horns, thorns and spikes, of teeth, claws and pincers, all complemented by a writhing picket fence of antennas, from humble nubs to ostentatious lariats. Books: The French Painter Bernard Durin’s Close Look at Insect Life 2013-12-02T22:23:58Z The product of this hard-shelled red fruit, harvested primarily on plantations in Southeast Asia, is typically used as cheap cooking oil for fried foods like noodles and curry puffs. Can Palm Oil Help Fight Cancer and Prevent Strokes? 2012-05-22T09:25:00Z The scent of the hard-shelled tortoise comes into my nostrils which is being cooked in brass with lamb's flesh; brass is below, and brass is above.' The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z The flavor of the hard-shelled almond, so far as I have tested it, is little or no better than a peach kernel, and is therefore practically worthless. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z The fruit is a dark blue, fleshy berry, ⅔ of an inch long, containing a single hard-shelled seed, and is borne on long stems, 2 to 3 in a cluster. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Here, seagrasses dominate the floor - but they lack the hard-shelled snails that normally live on their fronds. Bubbling sea signals coral threat 2011-05-29T17:42:47Z Generally, soft-bodied animals do not preserve as well as hard-shelled animals, making intact fossils a rare find. Observatory: Fossil Extends Life Span of a Marine Predator 2011-05-25T17:50:03Z The most common myths are that combat photographers are reckless of spirit, or why else would they take such chances, and hard-shelled of heart, or how else could they bear it? First: The Inner Lives of Wartime Photographers 2011-05-05T10:25:31Z The half-wild hard-shelled almond is probably the most congenial and best stock for this purpose, but seedlings of the peach are most generally employed because the most abundant and cheapest. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z They are fine plump morsels much to his taste, not so sour as ants, nor so hard-shelled as beetles, nor so insipid as insects’ eggs. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The hard-shelled fruit is an intrinsic part of Sri Lankan culture and cuisine. Drastic measures to crack Sri Lanka's coconut crisis 2010-12-21T12:39:34Z Many adults seem confounded at why girls, in particular, would choose to post the leering, scabrous queries; some teenagers say they do so in order to toss back hard-shelled, tough-girl retorts. How Should Schools Handle Cyberbullying? 2010-06-28T02:01:00Z Because mongooses enjoy eating hard-shelled items like bird eggs and rhinoceros beetles, the rice-filled plastic eggs artificially simulated this. Observatory: The Mongoose Shows It Has Traditions, Too 2010-06-07T20:44:00Z It is also generally conceded that several of what are called hard-shelled varieties thrive and bear fruit in nearly all of our best peach-growing regions. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z It was such a sudden, unlooked for accusation piercing the holy covering of every hard-shelled Baptist brother in the new Sunday-school room that for the moment the little group of men were staggered. The Loves of Ambrose The eggs of the lizards are always white or yellowish, and generally soft-shelled; but the geckos and the green lizard lay hard-shelled eggs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" We call it the Age of Invertebrates, because these soft-bodied, hard-shelled animals, the crinoids, the molluscs, and the trilobites, with bony external skeletons and no backbones, were the most abundant. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Both the soft- and the hard-shelled varieties are grown. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products One reliable grower keeps his black hard-shelled bulblets in gunny sacks containing about one bushel mixed with about 20 per cent of fine dry earth. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus Those longish hard-shelled creatures had all burst open, and something that smelt delicious lay inside, with black heads sticking out. Phemie Frost's Experiences The tuatara of New Zealand, however, lays but ten—white hard-shelled, long and oval—at intervals between November and January. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" “You ought to be hung for running away from her, you old hard-shelled scoundrel!” The Flockmaster of Poison Creek A stream of profane protest made no difference with his adviser, and, after many threats and hard words, to the hospital the hard-shelled mountaineer was taken. Nan of Music Mountain This same grower believes in soaking the black hard-shelled bulblets for 36 hours in water just before planting, but no longer. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus Eighty per cent. of the rush is a hard-shelled lot an' erlong with 'em is a smaller bunch that thrives best when things is run haphazard. Rimrock Trail It belongs to the order Rodentia, or gnawing animals, and if kept in confinement, must be given a plenty of hard-shelled nuts to use its teeth on. Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They break the hard-shelled insects and swallow them rapidly. More Science From an Easy Chair Weevils and Curculios Weevils and curculios are small, hard-shelled, grayish to brown beetles about 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, with stiff, slender snouts or beaks. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 I have grafted on native plum stock most of the almonds which have been considered hardy, including the hard-shelled varieties from Michigan and the Northland from the Pacific Coast. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 Since then I have found a few, good, hard-shelled almond trees growing and yielding well in the Lake Erie country. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 In this she deposits her eggs—from seventy to one hundred and twenty of them—each egg being white, hard-shelled, and between the size of a pigeon's and pullet's. Popular Adventure Tales One kind had feathers soft as the blue of a pale hyacinth flower, and a beak strong enough to crush nuts so hard-shelled that a man could not easily crack them with a hammer. Bird Stories And the pulpy, hard-shelled plants that you can still find, alive, if you know where to look. The Planet Strappers In this she deposits her eggs—from seventy to one hundred and twenty of them—each egg being white, hard-shelled, and between the size of a pigeon’s and pullet’s. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon The girl was staring with frank wonder at this hard-shelled mariner whom she had not been able to impress by her name or her manner. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 This is a very hard-shelled nut, very oily and resembles somewhat the Brazil nut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 Suddenly Corbie walked up and, taking one of these hard-shelled animals right out of their hands, he flew high overhead and dropped it down on the rocks near by. Bird Stories We've got to bust a hard-shelled system without hurting too many of the people within it. Alarm Clock "Mercy! you're a hard-shelled old sinner!" she exclaimed, rubbing her bruised forehead and glaring at the offending fruit. At the Little Brown House In spite of her spirit the girl was not able to bandy retort longer with this hard-shelled mariner, whose weapon among his kind for years had been a rude tongue. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 One of the first pieces of foreign work I was asked to do for the government was to get and import the hard-shelled almonds of Spain. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 Gourds were plentiful on the farm, and gathered with care, that the hard-shelled fruit might be shaped into simple drinking-cups. Home Life in Colonial Days Our people have shown so much of this hard-shelled virtue during the last five years, that we look with more confidence than apprehension to the result of our present difficulties. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays Or Science and some of our cursed hard-shelled data. The Book of the Damned But, sometimes, a brood of these youngsters find something that puzzles them, as when they meet with a hard-shelled beetle, who looks too big to eat and yet too small for a playmate. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Here we have plainly indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes that are often cultivated as ornamental plants. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. “What!” cried the Doctor; and he took the great, hard-shelled fruit from the basket and turned it over in his hands. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris Their chief characteristic lies in their pointed dentition, which enable them to pierce and crush the hard-shelled insects on which they feed. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon From the gravel, from under rocks, gathered an army of blue-black, hard-shelled things, their clawed forelimbs extended, blue sense organs raised on fleshy stalks well above their heads, all turned towards the dead feline. Star Hunter Then he saw what had made the noise—a hard-shelled thing a foot in length, with twelve legs, long antennae and two pairs of clawed mandibles. Little Fuzzy But the funny part of it is that sometimes the same crab is soft-shelled, and again it is hard-shelled. Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's This whole intolerable fallacy of outgrown and hard-shelled narrow-mindedness was spurring him to outbreak, yet for a moment more he held himself in check. Destiny The general asked two young Boers to carry ammunition to the top of a kopje which was being hard-shelled by the enemy. With the Boer Forces My flying squirrels were given soft feed in place of the usual hard-shelled nuts. Outdoor Sports and Games It is dark brown, hard-shelled, dry, of resinous smell to nostrils sensitive as a bird's. Among the Forces If there is anything in regard to which the love of friends corroborates the malice of enemies it is in ascribing to the English an individualism, hard-shelled beyond all human parallel. The Open Secret of Ireland As she faced this hard-shelled public she felt keen and interested; she knew that she would give such a recital as cannot often be heard for money. Youth and the Bright Medusa They make me think of the lower invertebrates, hard-shelled, soft-bodied animals. Vanguards of the Plains Tom also caught a perch, and clinging to it as he drew in his line was a large, hard-shelled, long-clawed crab. Stories of California Every one is acquainted with the hard-shelled, triangular fruit called the Brazil nut, but there are, perhaps, but few who know anything about the tree that produces it, or its mode of growth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 The babes can't cut teeth, and grow, and fight it out in punishing races on dusty hay and hard-shelled oats, when they ought to be picking grass in an open field. Thoroughbreds I have frequently seen karan-jamara disposing of hard-shelled beetles as big in bulk as some birds, and the strongest of butterflies, once entangled, is powerless. Tropic Days "I'm glad you have let me be your friend, a hard-shelled bull-whacker like me." Vanguards of the Plains Flea-beetle:—This small, black or striped hard-shelled mite attacks potatoes and young cabbage, radish and turnip plants. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use At last he went fishing for himself, and succeeded in getting a black hard-shelled water beetle that nipped his nose with a pair of needle-like pincers and brought a yelp from him. The Grizzly King The bitter almond and the hard-shelled sweet almond are both used and we are not aware that any particular advantage has been demonstrated for either of them. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered And there that china nest-egg, for that is what he had stolen, is still his chief treasure to this day, and Blacky still sometimes wonders what kind of a hen laid such a hard-shelled egg. Blacky the Crow The shores of this island abound with the soft- shelled, the hard-shelled, and the great sea clams, a most nutritious shell-fish. Letters from an American Farmer It was a hard-shelled book, an' I never took much stock in that kind. Happy Hawkins But winter evenings were utilized in whittling out wooden bowls, trenchers, and noggins or cups, while gourds and hard-shelled squashes were turned to numerous uses. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Old Toombs was apparently of that type of hard-shelled, grasping, self-reliant, old-fashioned farmer not unfamiliar to many country neighbourhoods. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment Like all hard-shelled, practical people, Mr. Nash could only dominate in a world which recognized the same material supremacy that he recognized. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment |
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