redback

n. 赤背蜘蛛;力博通信公司

发音

AU

词形变化

redbacks 复数

别名

red-back

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.

    红背蜘蛛

    澳大利亚

    1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.

    2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58, Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.

  2. 2.

    A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.

    美国
  3. 1.

    the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)

    俚语

词源

From red + back.

来源:wiktionary