| 单词 | germ |
| 释义 | germ (dʒɜːʳm ) Word forms: germs 1. countable noun A germ is a very small organism that causes disease. Chlorine is widely used to kill germs. ...a germ that destroyed hundreds of millions of lives. Synonyms: microbe, virus, bug [informal], bacterium 2. singular noun The germ of something such as an idea is something which developed or might develop into that thing. The germ of an idea took root in Rosemary's mind. [+ of] This was the germ of a book. Synonyms: beginning, root, seed, origin 3. See also wheatgerm Collocations: germ of truth So his comments, even if they were ever-soslightly unwise, have a germ of truth, no? The Sun The droll apparition this comment invokes contains a germ of truth. The Times Literary Supplement It has therefore mostly been dismissed as unhistorical, although occasionally held to contain a germ of truth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The stories were manufactured from germs of truth by people outside the country who should have known better. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 细菌 Japanese: 細菌 |
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