Butterfly in English: butterfly

Pronunciation: English?['b?t?fla?]???American?['b?t?rfla?]?

n.?Butterfly; butterfly-shaped object; butterfly swimming

vt.? (Cut fish, etc. when cooking) and spread them flat

Vocabulary matching

1. beautiful butterfly beautiful butterfly?

2. social butterfly social butterfly

3. Butterfly cake? Butterfly cake

Common sentence patterns:

1. A butterfly must not be confused with a moth.

Butterflies and moths must not be confused.

2. A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.

A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.

3. A butterfly is flying up and down among the flowers.

There is a butterfly flying up and down among the flowers.

Extended information:

The word butterfly comes from the Old English buterfleoge, which is composed of buttere (butter) plus fleoge (flying creature).

There is a long-standing saying that because butterflies like to steal butter and milk, people describe it as an elf with colorful wings who likes to steal butter, so they call it butterfly. The above legend is also reflected in one of the German names for butterflies, milchdieb, which is equivalent to the English milk-thief.

Another explanation is that "butter" refers to the color of the butterfly; "fly" originally refers to flying insects, and the word "butterfly" may first refer to the insects that appeared after the winter in Southern Europe. A white butterfly with a sulfur color (closer to cream when its wings are closed).

The male butterfly’s forewings are bright yellow in color and bring out a warm light when flying. They are called butter-colored fly. The word evolved into butterfly and was used to refer to all species of butterfly.