Grub

(noun.) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.

(verb.) search about busily.

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• Smelling the grub like a old lady a going to market! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was a Christmas Eve, too; and I remember that on that very night he told us the story about the goblins that carried away old Gabriel Grub. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Gabriel Grub was paralysed, and could make no reply. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My grub-worm is always a straitened, struggling, care-worn tradesman. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Everything that Mr. Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But come,' said the young gentleman; 'you want grub, and you shall have it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The red-nosed man warn't by no means the sort of person you'd like to grub by contract, but he was nothin' to the shepherd. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He would have various grubs and insects, the large larv? of beetles and various caterpillars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,' said Bella, looking at her father's hand and lightly slapping it, 'till he's not fit to be seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Fun forever, and no grubbing! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Curse the whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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