Toad

(n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

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• There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Not a black trance like the toad's, buried in marble; nor a long, slow death like yours in Briarfield rectory. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Now that you think me disqualified to become your husband, you recoil from my touch as if I were some toad or ape. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You're a sweltering toad. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You are so ugly you would be jealous of a toad, the girl told him cheerfully. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you are indignant at their wrongs. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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