parasite
英 [ˈpærəsaɪt]
美 [ˈpærəsaɪt]
n. 寄生生物; 寄生虫; 寄生植物; 依赖他人过活者
复数：parasites
Collins.1 / BNC.7277 / COCA.8481
牛津词典
noun
- 寄生生物；寄生虫；寄生植物
a small animal or plant that lives on or inside another animal or plant and gets its food from it - 寄生虫；依赖他人过活者
a person who always relies on or benefits from other people and gives nothing back
柯林斯词典
- 寄生虫；寄生物
Aparasiteis a small animal or plant that lives on or inside a larger animal or plant, and gets its food from it. - 不劳而获者；寄生虫
If you disapprove of someone because you think that they get money or other things from other people but do not do anything in return, you can call them aparasite.
英英释义
noun
- an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant)
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
双语例句
- The kind of people live as a parasite on society.
这类人像寄生虫似的靠社会为生。 - The study is aimed at developing a new vaccine for the East Coast fever parasite.
这项研究的目的是开发一个新的东海岸热寄生虫疫苗。 - People become infected when they are bitten by mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite.
当人们被携带疟疾寄生虫的蚊子叮咬就会被传染。 - Parasite resistance to anti-malarial medicines and mosquito resistance to insecticides are major threats to achieving global malaria control.
寄生虫对抗疟疾药品的耐药性和蚊虫对杀虫剂的抗药性是实现全球疟疾控制所面临的主要威胁。 - The scientists in the United States centered their work on the parasite that causes Texas cattle fever.
美国科学家将工作重点放到了引起德克萨斯州牛发烧的寄生虫上。 - The lazy man was a parasite on his family.
那懒汉是家里的寄生虫。 - She was essentially feminine, in other words, a parasite and a chalice.
她在本质上是个女人，换句话说，是一个食客和一只酒杯。 - Israeli researchers say they have developed a substance that attracts and kills mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite.
以色列研究人员称他们研制出了一种新的物质，能够吸引并消灭感染了疟原虫的蚊子。 - Winds and rain spread the parasite.
风和雨都能传播寄生虫。 - The animals become infected when they get bitten by ticks carrying the parasite that causes the disease.
当牛被携带了可以导致该疾病的寄生虫的蜱虫叮咬后就会感染。