| 单词 | bug |
| 释义 | bug (once / 511 pages) 1n 2v 3nv 4n A bug is an insect. You might refuse to go camping because of your intense dislike for bugs. Bug can also be a verb meaning "annoy." Most likely, bugs bug you. There are bugs you can see, like bees, and bugs that are much smaller, like viruses and bacteria. If you get one of these microscopic bugs, it means you're sick. You can also say, casually, "I've caught the model train bug — I'm hooked!" A microphone that's hidden in someone's home or telephone is also a bug, named after its small size. To bug someone means either to spy on them, or simply to bother them relentlessly. WORD FAMILYbug: bugged, bugging, buggy, bugs, debug, superbug+/buggy: buggies, bugginess/debug: debugged, debugger, debugging, debugs/debugger: debuggers/superbug: superbugs USAGE EXAMPLESHe ordered more bugs and privately groused that Nixon’s behavior amounted to “treason.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The setup allows the company to frequently update the software to fix bugs and add new features. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Among the methods are bio controls, in which bugs that feed upon pests in their native lands are introduced here. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate Hyper insect small air-breathing arthropod 2n insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis Syn|Hypo|Hyper hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect leaf bug, plant bug small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices lygaeid, lygaeid buga true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees coreid, coreid buga true bug Cimex lectularius, bed bug, bedbug, chinchbug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood Notonecta undulata, backswimmerpredaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites true bugany of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera capsid, mirid, mirid buga variety of leaf bug lace bugsmall bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines Blissus leucopterus, chinch bugsmall black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses Anasa tristis, squash buglarge black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family leaf-foot bug, leaf-footed buglarge sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs insect small air-breathing arthropod 3n a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use 2Syn|Hyper germ, microbe micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size v annoy persistently 3Syn|Hyper badger, beleaguer, pester, tease bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment treat cruelly 1n a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly Hyper microphone, mike device for converting sound waves into electrical energy 2v tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information 4Is this hotel room bugged? Syn|Hyper intercept, tap, wiretap eavesdrop, listen in listen without the speaker's knowledge n a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine Syn|Hyper glitch defect, fault, flaw an imperfection in an object or machine |
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