lemming

noun

1. 旅鼠
   a small animal like a mouse, that lives in cold northern countries. Sometimes large groups of lemmings migrate (= move from one place to another) in search of food. Many of them die on these journeys and there is a popular belief that lemmings kill themselves by jumping off cliffs .
   1. Lemming-like we rushed into certain disaster.
      我们像旅鼠一样忙不迭地投入灾难。

1. 旅鼠
   A lemming is an animal that looks like a large rat with thick fur. Lemmings live in cold northern regions and sometimes travel in very large numbers.
2. N-COUNT （如旅鼠般）盲目从众者，随大流者
   If you say that a large group of people are acting like lemmings, you are critical of them because they all follow each other into an action without thinking about it.
   1. 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。

1. 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。
2. But, as any Latin-speaking lemming could attest, simply chanting "defendit numerus" is all very well provided your numbers are heading in the right direction.
   但正如任何说拉丁语的旅鼠都能证明的那样，如果你的数字朝着正确的方向前进，那么仅仅哼唱着defenditnumerus（译注：拉丁语，意为：数能保平安）就可以了。
3. This idea that somehow you do not support the troops if you do not continue, in a lemming like way, to accept whatever this administration's policy is, that is what is wrong.
   有些人认为如果你不再像一只旅鼠那样全盘接受政府所发布的所有政策，你就会反对增兵政策。这种想法本身就是错误的。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Growth and development of the steppe lemming, Lagurus Lagurus
   草原兔尾鼠的生长发育

noun

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