大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 lightning bug


释义：

lightning bug 萤火虫（等于 firefly）

例句：



The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

正确的词语和几乎正确的词语之间的差别就好像闪电和萤火虫的差别一样。


Its "nose" is a 2-inch-long glass cylinder coated on the inside with a concoction of glowing chemicals like those found in the belly of a lightning bug.


But knowing that trust has become precious and the ability to deliver it, as Mark Twain once said, is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.


The difference is, as Mark Twain once put it, like that between lightning and a lightning bug: Team Obama has unmistakably capitulated at the geo-strategic level and no amount of obfuscations about revised intelligence or "stronger, smarter and swifter" missile defense architectures will conceal that fact.