单词	mosquito
释义	mosquito From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Insectsmosquitomos‧qui‧to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●○○ noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable]  HBIa small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malariaExamples from the Corpusmosquito• It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder.• Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.• We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes!• No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.• Then, mosquitoes and steamy jungle heat along a path that went up and up.• But my purse contained torch, mosquito repellent, passport and all the papers needed to subdue bureaucrats from here to Delhi.Origin mosquito (1500-1600) Spanish mosca “fly”, from Latin musca
随便看	it’s no/some comfort it’s not as if it’s not every day (that) it’s not fair on somebody it’s not for somebody to judge it’s not over until it’s over it’s not over until the fat lady sings it’s not somebody’s day it’s not the end of the world it’s now or never it’s odds on (that) It’s one thing to ... it’s (quite) another to it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ..., it’s only fair (that) it’s only/just a matter of time it’s pouring (rain) it’s pouring with rain/it poured with rain lead somebody on lead somebody to believe/expect/understand something lead somebody to do something lead somebody to/into etc something lead somebody to/into something lead somebody up the garden path lead something ↔ off lead story

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