leech
leech 英 [li:tʃ] 美 [litʃ]
n. 水蛭；吸血鬼；榨取他人利益的人 vt. 以水蛭吸血；依附并榨取 vi. 依附并榨取别人
进行时:leeching 过去式:leeched 过去分词:leeched 第三人称单数:leeches 名词复数:leeches
- A leech is a kind of worm that feeds by sucking blood from other animals. You might find yourself needing to pull a leech off your leg after swimming in a lake.
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- n. 水蛭；吸血鬼；榨取他人利益的人
- vt. 以水蛭吸血；依附并榨取
- vi. 依附并榨取别人
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1. Then, despite the leech fears, I am hit by the strange wonder of my situation.
后来，尽管还是害怕水蛭，我为自己身处奇妙的境地感到激动。
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2. And scientists say they've found a new animal species - a leech with razor-sharp teeth in the nose of a girl in a remote region of Peru.
科学家们说他们发现了一个新的动物物种——在秘鲁偏远地区一个小女孩的鼻子内发现了有着锋利牙齿的水蛭。
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3. 'They should only be removing candidates who are a clear miss,' says Peter leech, chief marketing officer for Onlineshoes.com, a small Seattle e-commerce company。
西雅图一家小型电子商务公司首席营销长里奇(Peter Leech)说，他们应该只是排除那些明显不合格的人选。
- leech (n.1) "bloodsucking aquatic worm," from Old English læce (Kentish lyce), of unknown origin (with a cognate in Middle Dutch lake). Commonly regarded as a transferred use of leech (n.2), but according to OED the Old English forms suggest this is a distinct word, which has been assimilated to leech (n.2) by folk etymology. Figuratively applied to human parasites since 1784.
- leech (n.2) "physician" (obsolete, poetical, or archaic), from Old English læce "leech," probably from Old Danish læke, from Proto-Germanic *lekjaz "enchanter, one who speaks magic words; healer, physician" (source also of Old Frisian letza, Old Saxon laki, Old Norse læknir, Old High German lahhi, Gothic lekeis "physician"), literally "one who counsels," perhaps connected with a root found in Celtic (compare Irish liaig "charmer, exorcist, physician") and Slavic (compare Serbo-Croatian lijekar, Polish lekarz), from PIE *lep-agi "conjurer," from root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')."
- leech (v.) "to cure, heal," c. 1200, from Old English also had a verb læcnian, from the source of leech (n.2). Meaning "to apply leeches medicinally" is from 1802 (implied in leeching), from leech (n.1). Related: Leeched.
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