| 单词 | germ life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgerm life germ life n. the life of a germ, or life at the stage of a germ (in various senses); (also) living germs (esp. in sense 4). ΚΠ 1851 Lancet 23 Aug. 175/1 We may readily admit the influence of syphilis in parents in developing hereditary disease in the offspring, by its lowering the power of the germ-life. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xx. 288 Here we are thrown back upon some considerations on the phenomena of germ-life in general. 1920 W. M. Decker Bk. Medit. 51 It takes three lives to make a loaf of bread. The germ life, or seeds of the wheat, furnish the flour. 1978 Hastings Center Rep. 7/1 Pope Pius XII once warned against reducing the cohabitation of married persons to the transmission of germ life. 2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 15 Dec. 14 Doing the dishes in it and drying them (and myself) on towels no doubt rampant with invisible germ-life. < as lemmas |
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