| 单词 | microbe |
| 释义 | microbe (once / 3653 pages) n Microbe is a somewhat outdated way for scientists to talk about the tiny bugs that cause diseases. When you get the flu, you can blame a microbe. In the nineteenth century, the idea that germs caused illness was brand new, and doctors referred to both germs and microbes interchangeably. The word microorganism is more scientifically precise, and in fact microbe is a shortened form of that long, Greek-rooted word. Mikro means "small," and in microbe it's combined with bios, or "life." WORD FAMILYmicrobe: microbes, microbial+/antimicrobial: antimicrobials/microbial: antimicrobial USAGE EXAMPLESYour airways are lined with hairlike cilia that consolidate microbes and mucus and help move it toward the exit. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Until fairly recently our various microbes were thought of as freeloaders without any meaningful benefit to our functioning as healthy human beings. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) Even astronauts on the International Space Station used it to sequence a mixture of microbes in soil. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) n a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use Syn|Hyper bug, germ micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size |
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