cockroach
音标：
英音/ ˈkɒkrəʊtʃ / 美音/ ˈkɑːkroʊtʃ /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
One woman said the police threatened to put cockroaches on her body during one of her arrests.
一名妇女说，在一次逮捕她的过程中，警方威胁要把蟑螂放在她身上。
—BBC
Then they learned that federal agents were looking for them, and it was “like when the lights come on and the cockroaches scatter.”
然后他们得知联邦特工正在寻找他们，“就像灯一亮，蟑螂就散了一样”。
—Washington Post
“It doesn’t how matter how much you clean the cell, the cockroaches don’t ever go away; the ground-floor wing has rats and mice.”
“无论你把牢房打扫得多么干净，蟑螂都不会消失；一楼的厢房里有老鼠。”
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
蟑螂
同义词：
roach
短释义：
Cockroaches have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and experts guess they might outlive humans. These hardy insects have adapted to so many threats over time that they’re nearly indestructible today. For example, radiation that would kill you won’t harm a cockroach. It’s almost impossible to drown them (they can live for hours without oxygen), and they’re immune to most of the poisons people use on them. Cockroach comes from the Spanish cucaracha, “beetle.”
蟑螂是一种大型昆虫，是一种常见的城市害虫。如果你的公寓里有蟑螂，晚上打开厨房的灯时，你会看到它们四散开来。
长释义：
Cockroaches have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and experts guess they might outlive humans. These hardy insects have adapted to so many threats over time that they’re nearly indestructible today. For example, radiation that would kill you won’t harm a cockroach. It’s almost impossible to drown them (they can live for hours without oxygen), and they’re immune to most of the poisons people use on them. Cockroach comes from the Spanish cucaracha, “beetle.”
蟑螂已经存在了数亿年，专家猜测它们的寿命可能比人类还要长。随着时间的推移，这些顽强的昆虫已经适应了如此多的威胁，以至于今天它们几乎坚不可摧。例如，会杀死你的辐射不会伤害蟑螂。淹死它们几乎是不可能的（它们可以在没有氧气的情况下存活数小时），而且它们对人们对它们使用的大多数毒药免疫。蟑螂源自西班牙语 cucaracha，意为“甲虫”。
文学例句：
“That woman has magic powers. She might decide to turn you into something even sillier than a mouse. A cockroach perhaps.”
“那个女人有魔力。她可能会决定把你变成比老鼠更愚蠢的东西。也许是蟑螂。”
—The Witches by Roald Dahl
If he shuts this idea down after what we’ve just heard, he’s a cockroach doing the backstroke in the iced tea pitcher.
如果他在我们刚刚听到的消息之后打消了这个想法，那么他就是一只在冰茶壶里进行仰泳的蟑螂。
—Linked by Gordon Korman
“Make sure the cockroaches don’t get to it. Life is harder for them these days.”
“确保蟑螂不会接触到它。如今，他们的生活变得更加艰难。”
—Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
词源：
cockroach (n.)popular name of a troublesome, voracious insect genus, 1620s, folk etymology (as if from cock (n.1) + roach; compare cockchafer) of Spanish cucaracha “chafer, beetle,” from cuca “kind of caterpillar.” Folk etymology also holds that the first element is from caca “excrement,” perhaps because of the insect’s offensive smell.
A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, “Virginia,” 1624].
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下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
蟑螂（n.）一种麻烦的、贪婪的昆虫属的通俗名称，1620年代，民间词源（好像来自公鸡（n.1）+蟑螂；比较金龟子）西班牙语cucaracha“金龟子，甲虫”，来自cuca“一种毛毛虫” ”。民间词源学还认为，第一个元素来自卡卡“排泄物”，也许是因为这种昆虫的难闻气味。一种印度臭虫，被西班牙人称为“Cacarootch”，它们会爬进箱子里吃掉，并用它们的粪便玷污[船长。约翰·史密斯，《弗吉尼亚》，1624]。相关条目及更多
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