amoeba
amoeba 英 [ə'mi:bə] 美 [əˈmibə]
n. 阿米巴；变形虫（单细胞生物）
名词复数:amoebae
- An amoeba is a tiny, single-celled organism. You need a powerful microscope to see an amoeba.
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- n. 阿米巴；变形虫（单细胞生物）
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1. In 1992 scientists tracking a pneumonia outbreak in England found a massive new kind of virus lurking within an amoeba inside a cooling tower.
1992年英国科学家在追踪肺炎爆发时在一个冷却塔内发现了一种大量潜伏在变形虫内的病毒。
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2. Sure, it helps to know some history, but a grasp of biology now is even more useful — like how an amoeba reproduces by constantly splitting itself in half.
当然，了解一些历史会有所帮助，但是掌握生物学知识现在更有用的-例如阿米巴虫是如何不断一分为二，分裂繁殖的。
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3. You can't shrink down to the size of an amoeba without losing parts of yourself.
你不可能不失去身体的一些部分就缩小到变形虫的大小。
- amoeba (n.) type of microscopic protozoa, 1855, from Modern Latin Amoeba, genus name (1841 in English, said to have been used 1830 by German naturalist Christian Ehrenberg), from Greek amoibe "change, alteration; exchange," which is related to ameibein "to change, exchange," from PIE *(e)meigw-, which is an extended form of root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" or perhaps a separate root. So called for its constantly changing shape. An earlier popular name for it was proteus (1660s). Related: Amoebic; amoebiform; amoeboid.
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