Snail

(noun.) freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.

(verb.) gather snails; 'We went snailing in the summer'.

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• His hat presents at the rims a peculiar appearance of a glistening nature, as if it had been a favourite snail-promenade. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But do me one cast of thy holy office, and, come what list of others, thou shalt sleep as safe in thy cell as a snail within his shell of proof. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Only we need not walk at a snail's' pace. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• My life creeps like a snail. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• For a matter of five minutes I waited and then he came in sight on his slow and snail-like beat about the structure. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The revolver I had dropped, so that while we were both strong swimmers it seemed to me that we moved at a snail's pace through the water. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The green damp hung upon the low walls; the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light of the candle; but all was still as death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The one-legged man in the little signal-hut by the road stared out from his security, like a crab from a snail-shell. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To execute his message the snail is as sure a messenger as the falcon. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He had newts, snails, and frogs--the two latter delicacies are still highly esteemed in Normandy and Brittany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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