lemming

• n. [脊椎] 旅鼠（北极的一种动物）
• n. (Lemming)人名；(瑞典)莱明

1. any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution

Lemming-like we rushed into certain disaster.

我们像旅鼠一样忙不迭地投入灾难。

牛津词典

The French crowds pour like lemmings down the motorway to Paris.

一群群法国人像旅鼠一样涌上通往巴黎的高速公路。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged.

冬季为白色皮毛且一些爪非常大的北美洲旅鼠.

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1. Lemming-like we rushed into certain disaster.

我们像旅鼠一样忙不迭地投入灾难。

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2. The soldiers continued their advance, possessed by some lemming like instinct for self - destruction.

士兵们持续他们的前进, 像某些旅鼠 自我 毁灭的天性般著魔.

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3. North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged.

冬季为白色皮毛且一些爪非常大的北美洲旅鼠.

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lemming (n.)

small arctic rodent, c. 1600, from Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lomundr "lemming." Perhaps from Lapp luomek. Figurative sense (in reference to their mass migrations that sometimes end in plunges into the sea) is from 1958.