Motes have small, inexpensive shells and use redundancy to increase their reliability.

Dust motes hung in a slant of sunlight ( Anne Tyler )

斜阳中悬浮着尘埃 ( 安妮泰勒 )

In those warm beams the motes kept dancing up and down.

只见温暖的光芒里面,微细的灰尘在上下飞扬.

To track these fronts, motes pool their data and search for spatial patterns.

为了追踪这些锋面, 尘粒会整合数据,并且找出空间模式.

The children are learning to sing the motet.

孩子们在学唱赞美诗.

Then he looked about upon a dingy, moth-eaten hotel lobby.

这时他朝这个阴暗 、 破烂的旅馆门厅四周看了看.

The moth quivered its wings.

蛾子抖动着翅膀.

Is that a butterfly or a moth?

那是蝴蝶还是飞蛾?

The sweater is moth-eaten.

毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了.

This moth's ear is tuned in to the bat's ultrasonic squeak.

这种蛾的耳朵能收听到蝙蝠的超音速的尖叫声.

Miss Lin shook her head, then fluttered from the room like a moth.

林小姐摇头, 就像扑火的灯蛾似的扑向外面去了.

The moth's habitat is being destroyed and it has nearly died out.

这种蛾子因栖息地正受到破坏,几乎绝种了.

And he , rotten thing , consumed , as a garment that is moth eaten.

我已经像灭绝的烂物, 像虫蛀的衣裳.

We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park...

我们驾车穿过有些破旧的鹿苑。

a moth-eaten old sofa

破旧的沙发

...a moth-eaten leopardskin jacket.

虫蛀的豹皮夹克

a moth-eaten sweater

蛀坏的羊毛衫

With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.

随着冷战的结束,有几艘军舰被封存。

Our country population is numerous, per capita has farmland amount low, and mothball resource lack.

我国人口众多, 人均占有耕地数量低, 且后备资源缺乏.

The hospital manager said the project would be mothballed until funding became available.

医院院长说这个项目要暂时搁一搁,等到有了资金再说。

The shuttle programme has now been mothballed to save money.

为节省资金，航天飞行计划已被束之高阁。