| 单词 | lightning bug |
| 例句 | “You pale grub! You lightless lightning bug! The cauldron of Arawn’s Cauldron-Born!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z T. P. had lightning bugs in a bottle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand rushes up like he's trying to catch a lightning bug. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Small animals in the water, microscopic organisms, sometimes phosphoresced—gave off light almost like lightning bugs—when disturbed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner, a person was smoking, the gold cherry pulsing like a lightning bug. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “He’s still got T. P.’s bottle of lightning bugs.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited till his taillights turned to specks no bigger than lightning bugs before we spoke or even moved. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But here in the real world, it’s only Sagan’s lightning bugs leading us to shelter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Thorn pointed ahead, and there, through the now open path, was a lagoon, shining with beautiful crystal-clear waters and what looked like hundreds of blue lightning bugs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I remembered die summers with lightning bugs and honeysuckle smells; the cold winters when the fields would all be brown and would crackle under my feet I didn't remember too much else. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z First thing I notice outside the shed is a swarm of lightning bugs shining like little stars in the tall grass. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z T. P. gave me the bottle of lightning bugs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the lightning bugs twinkle down below and waited for us to talk about everything. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “It’s a party. Frony dont know anything about it. He wants your lightning bugs, T. P. Let him hold it a while.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished on a butterfly that landed on me, on a camel-shaped cloud, on a cricket in the house, and a lightning bug glowing on my ring finger. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “This one time, we took a jar of lightning bugs into the grocery store...” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z So the three of us sat in silence, watching the sun sink behind the mountain and the lightning bugs twinkle off and on among the pine trees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I can tell because the buildings are disappearing, leaving just fields, dotted with the rhythmic glow of lightning bugs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As Twain himself said: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Censoring Mark Twain's 'n-words' is unacceptable 2011-01-05T17:47:51Z The next morning, when the storm clouds made way for sunshine, gossip sparked like lightning bugs. My hot, rowdy Indian summers at Hindu youth camp 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z On Sunday night, in his first of two sold-out concerts at , Mr. Gabriel made some interior sentiments feel momentous, practically seismic, and kept others small but mesmerizing, like lightning bugs in a jar. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z “There are lightning bugs and little characters and dragons everywhere,” Germick says. 11-year-old’s winning Doodle comes to life Surprisingly, some of the singers also miss the mark, sometimes just by millimeters, but as Mark Twain observed, that's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 'Motown' is music to the ears, but the message is missing 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “Didn’t we chase lightning bugs throughout the whole summer?” In a limited engagement, the fireflies blink in sync in the Great Smoky Mountains 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z He understood the difference between lightning and lightning bug. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z I half-expect him to leave a trail of argent, fading light in his wake, like a lightning bug. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z "There was no catching lightning bugs in the backyard," McCarthy said. Jenny McCarthy debuts VH1 talk show 2013-02-08T15:50:10Z His letter in 1888 about the right word and the almost right one was "the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words 2011-01-05T12:18:09Z Playing football on the field or watching the lightning bugs in the summer. John Grant: ‘Music has been a healing balm for me’ 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The fireflies, which I called lightning bugs, were the only awe I felt that summer in Ohio. The mothering class 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z We know it as the firefly, or lightning bug, an insect that transforms the sultry summer evening into a veil laced with sequins. Humans love fireflies, but we haven’t made life easy for them 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Some are considered pests by humans — Japanese beetle grubs, termites and weevils, for example — but others are beloved or at least beguiling and include the larvae of lightning bugs and cicadas. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z While fireflies, or lightning bugs as they are commonly known, are considered to be a staple in the Northeast, it's also the region where many firefly species are most vulnerable to going extinct. Fireflies are disappearing, but we may not know enough about these insects to save them 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z But these beloved, bioluminescent insects, also known as lightning bugs, are in trouble. Fireflies are vanishing—but you can help protect them 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “The lightning bug is super cute …” — until that moment, I had thought it was a bee or butterfly — “ … but yeah, just getting more aligned with the trends in nursery.” It Was My Favorite Toy to Give to New Parents, Until It Went Away 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z She sees their childhood in such direct contrast to her own growing up in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she would search for four-leaf clovers and catch lightning bugs to put them on her ear. ‘More funerals than weddings’: Chicago man tells Senate about trauma of gun violence 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Mosquitoes were tolerable, the stars above and the fluttering lightning bugs prolific, and the weather near perfect. Drive-in movies resurrected in Richland Center amid pandemic 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z It’s the first time since the 1990s that the lightning bugs will perform without a paparazzi-level audience. Firefly festivals are canceled due to coronavirus, and lightning bugs might be pleased about it 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost-right word is “the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Perspective | These are hard times. The best coaches know how to get through them. 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He's looking at fireflies, also known as lightning bugs. Artificial lights are disrupting firefly mating, putting them on the road to extinction 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z In Europe they are often called glow-worms, while American fireflies with flashing lights are known as lightning bugs. Why the lights are going out for fireflies 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The title of the memoir refers to a childhood dream where he spread joy by catching lightning bugs for others. Musician Ben Folds on forging union between classical music and rock: 'They each have something to offer the other' 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The closure will no doubt disappoint people who planned summer vacations around the annual lightning bug ritual — but it might not dismay the fireflies. Firefly festivals are canceled due to coronavirus, and lightning bugs might be pleased about it 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Some of these lightning bugs are doing fine. World’s fireflies threatened by habitat loss and light pollution, experts warn 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The poems furnish an elegant bachelor space, a man cave with soft touches and a long prospect on the past, in which Wright’s memories, like lightning bugs, appear. The Many Voices of Charles Wright 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Whether you call them fireflies or lightning bugs, these insects are neither flies nor true bugs. 11 Cool Things You Never Knew about Fireflies 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Suggesting that birtherism is parallel or equivalent to the Trump corruption scandals, as Mark Twain might say today, “ ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Opinion | Birtherism is not at all equivalent to the Trump corruption scandals 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z “Everybody loves fireflies,” said Sara Lewis, an entomologist who specializes in lightning bugs at Tufts University. Firefly festivals are canceled due to coronavirus, and lightning bugs might be pleased about it 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Scientists also think the way lightning bugs fly signals what they are. Bat signal: Fireflies’ glow tells bats they taste awful 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Here, their children know how to jump rope, how to ride bikes, how to play freeze tag, how to catch lightning bugs and how to duck and run at the sound of gunfire. Summer meant popsicles and pogo sticks. Then a 10-year-old was shot to death. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Do “lightning bugs” have any similarities to actual ⚡️ when it comes to their light? Analysis | The Energy 202: How a conservation fund helped sink Trump's budget-trimming efforts 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “The difference between being off the line of totality and on it is like the difference between seeing a lightning bug and lightning,” Dr. Oluseyi said. An Eclipse Chaser’s Guide to Your First Eclipse 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Here’s the lyric that started it: “Cause I'd get a thousand hugs / From ten thousand lightning bugs / As they tried to teach me how to dance.” Fact-checking Owl City’s description of being hugged by 10,000 fireflies 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z What confuses Internet users the most is the sheer possibility of receiving "a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs," which leads the second verse of the song. Owl City Is Here to Clarify Your Questions About That Song 'Fireflies' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Or perhaps of Mark Twain, who famously observed that “The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter — ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Close encounters with Chuck Berry, as a fan, musician and journalist 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z I do not want to harm urban wildlife, including my lightning bugs. Watch out, Washington: Sleepless nights are coming your way 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The name is from the Milky Way of lightning bugs that dance off their back porch on summer evenings. D.C. couple create a foodie’s oasis — and a handful of jobs — in Western Maryland 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z By design, it looks a lot like a lightning bug. How to Talk to Fireflies 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The firefly squid creates light via a chemical reaction inside its body, the same way a lightning bug does. Now Is the Time to See Squid That Glow Like Fireflies 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The gadfly wasn’t a gadfly - he was a lightning bug. Clinton’s response to Sanders has some Democrats worried 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z A really bad idea is going around HR circles faster than lightning bugs flying inside a mason jar in Mid-July. Code Red HR Alert 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Driving over a hill, he saw Watford City’s expanding landscape sprinkled with oil flares that glowed like lightning bugs. You can go home: Returnees to ND oil boom town here to stay 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Doing so, to paraphrase Mark Twain, is like comparing lightning to a lightning bug. Selling services? Think price not wages 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The firefly squid may bring to mind a lightning bug. Now Is the Time to See Squid That Glow Like Fireflies 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z And people have been following that lightning bug all over America.” Clinton’s response to Sanders has some Democrats worried 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s the fifth year for the Vanishing Firefly Project in which researchers enlist the help of the public in counting lightning bugs. Clemson’s annual firefly count starts this weekend 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Mark Twain, comparing word-of-mouth to UGC is like comparing a lightning bug to lightning. Customers Now Co-Own Your Brand Message 2014-02-04T19:18:00Z I do still delight in lightning bugs, though. City Room: The Last Day of Spring 2012-06-20T17:42:47Z In summer, people spend a lot of time outdoors, and that’s magical, too: long, lazy days, warm nights filled with barbecues, lightning bugs and starry skies.” Natalie Standiford talks about reading during the summer and writing about her favorite season 2012-06-15T15:49:56Z Return specialist Brandon Banks is a lightning bug capable of going the distance. The Fifth Down: 2011 Washington Redskins Season Preview 2011-08-10T10:00:32Z But for the gleam of the lightning bugs, the forms of two men standing under the trees could scarce be distinguished. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z You've fought your battles, and you've learned to accept life as it is now -- lightning bugs, the fireflies, the deer that come up and stand on their hind legs as they grab the apples. Special Report: Life and death in the age of the bionic heart 2010-10-12T12:27:00Z “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” 2010-01-21T16:07:00Z Now the sun became a tiny ball of fire, a lightning bug, the earth a grain of dust. Circle of Flight Now streaks of yellow fire shot into the picture, like a swarm of lightning bugs, the thin sharp nosed shadows of space ships, hurtling, like comets, toward the clustered star smear. The Valley "Not like a pair of legs and a spinal column with a lightning bug stuck on top." Accidental Flight He was always seeing flashes in the thing, from cars or lightning bugs or from the kitchen door, because his wife was there yelling at him, just like Rosie yelling at Harold. First Man They shoot mice, lizards, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, butterflies, lightning bugs, etc. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children The difference between what my colleagues expected from their pupils and what I did was the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. Revenge Now it is a fact well established in natural history—and in this instance was to prove a lamentable one—that elephants, unlike lightning bugs, carry no tail lamps. Sundry Accounts Long and narrow, it looked like a kalsomined cave illumined by a lightning bug in a bottle when he turned the electric switch. The Fighting Shepherdess His glance is not given to the grass, nor the brilliant “lightning bugs,” but to a dark belt discernible beyond, apparently a tract of timber, similar to that he has just traversed. The Death Shot A Story Retold "Nothing doing on the carpenter's bench," he said, flashing the "lightning bug" toward the site of the engine house. The Forbidden Trail "I made paper bullets out of it to shoot at lightning bugs on the way home." Tom Slade's Double Dare When they're firing, it looks as if a whole lot of lightning bugs were flashing all at once, and it makes a line along the ground. The Belgians to the Front "To call the little ants and lightning bugs to school," spoke Uncle Wiggily, and Billy smiled. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods Here and there, clinging to the earthen sides, were lightning bugs, which made the place so bright that the Monkey did not stumble once. The Story of a Monkey on a Stick They saw many lights sparkling, and out to sea was a tall lighthouse with a gleaming beacon which flickered like a giant lightning bug. The Story of a Plush Bear Did other people really prize squirrels and frogs and lightning bugs and such things? Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Then, would you ever believe it? those two shining things flew nearer, and instead of being the eyes of a fox or bear they were two, good, kind, lightning bugs, who were flitting about. Uncle Wiggily's Travels It looked like lightning bugs on a dark night. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show The lightning bugs kept on glowing, so it was not at all dark in the cave, though it would have been only for these fireflies. The Story of a Monkey on a Stick He remembered loving the thought of catching lightning bugs like his sister and the neighbor children and his repulsion towards it when his mother stated that they were "God's little creatures." Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The lightning bug is brilliant, But it hasn't any mind; It wanders through creation With its headlight on behind. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On "Of course, we will!" cried the two lightning bugs. Uncle Wiggily's Travels "Wait and we'll let you take our lantern," said Woody, and he hurried down into the burrow, and came back with a large bottle, filled with lightning bugs, which gave plenty of light. Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories In each room were lightning bugs to give light, though as Mr. Hare said, they were needed only when company came that could not see well in the dark. The Story of a Monkey on a Stick Here lightning bugs brighten the surface, court the light of reflected stars. The Tarn of Eternity Yes, it was a fortunate hour that I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) His own theory was that the Milky Way was an emigration of lightning bugs; and he supported and reinforced this theorem by the well-known fact that the locusts do like that in Egypt. Essays on Paul Bourget But Gup told him just how to cling tightly to his big neck and how to hold the lantern so the lightning bugs would shine on the path, and then Gup started off. Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories "To turn off the lightning bugs," was the answer. The Story of a Monkey on a Stick I don't believe he ever would have found them, but for a kind old lightning bug, who flew on ahead, to light the way for him. Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories |
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