worm
n. 虫, 蠕虫, 小人物, 螺纹, 蜗杆 vi. 蠕行, 慢慢前进 vt. 使蠕行, 慢慢地走, 除虫 [计] 蠕虫病毒
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教材释义与例句
虫，蠕虫；蜗杆；螺纹；小人物
a long thin creature with no bones and no legs that lives in soil
使蠕动；给除虫；使缓慢前进
慢慢前进；蠕行
释义与例句
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A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
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More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms.
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Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
蠕虫
古体 诗歌1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4, And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
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A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
非正式 诗歌Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.
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A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
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A contemptible or devious being.
Don't try to run away, you little worm!
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
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An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
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A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
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The lytta.
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A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
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A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
蠕虫
计算机 工程 数学When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.
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A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
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A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
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To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
及物We wormed our way through the underbrush.
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To move with one's body dragging the ground.
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To work one's way by artful or devious means.
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To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
比喻 及物He wormed his way into the organization.
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To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
及物 航海 交通Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
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To deworm (an animal).
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To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
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To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
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To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
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To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
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From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English. (computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider. Cognates Germanic cognates include Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Swedish orm (“snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“earthworm or snake”), Danish orm and Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem). Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian var̃mas (“insect, midge”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”).
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