a small creature with eight thin legs. Many spiders spin webs to catch insects for food. 蜘蛛 a poisonous spider 有毒的蜘蛛 She stared in horror at the hairy black spider. 她驚恐地盯着那只毛茸茸的黑蜘蛛。 In the film, giant spiders attack a town in Arizona. 在電影中,巨型蜘蛛襲擊了亞利桑那州的一個城鎮。 I was bitten by a spider. 我被蜘蛛咬了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- huge
- large
- …
- make a web
- spin a web
- weave a web
- …
- silk
- web
- a spider’s web
Word Originlate Old English spīthra, from spinnan ‘draw out and twist (fibre)’; related to German spinnen.