Vermin
['vɜːmɪn] or ['vɝmɪn]
解释:
(noun.) any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats; 'cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin'; 'he examined the child's head for vermin'; 'boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin'.
(noun.) an irritating or obnoxious person.
校对:菲利斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general.
(n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
(n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
手打:萨拜娜
同义词及近义词：
n. pl. Noxious animals (of small size).
录入:罗兰
解释:
n.sing. and pl. a worm: a name for all obnoxious insects as bugs fleas and lice; troublesome animals such as mice rats; animals destructive to game such as weasels polecats also hawks and owls: any contemptible person or such collectively.—v.i. Ver′mināte to breed vermin.—ns. Verminā′tion; Ver′min-kill′er.—adj. Ver′minous infested with worms: like vermin.—adv. Ver′minously.
手打:玛吉
娱乐性解释：
Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble. If you succeed in ridding yourself of them, you will be fairly successful, but otherwise death may come to you, or your relatives. See Locust.
编辑:陌莉
例句:
- He's happen gone to visit some poor body in a sick gird, or he's happen hunting down vermin in another direction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And vermin may be silent,' said Eugene. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And for every beggar in America, Italy can show a hundred--and rags and vermin to match. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- To hunt down vermin is a noble occupation, fit for an archbishop. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- How the vermin-tortured vagabonds did swarm! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- That was all the chamber held, exclusive of rats and other unseen vermin, in addition to the seen vermin, the two men. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The passage to the Conciergerie was short and dark; the night in its vermin-haunted cells was long and cold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- This new, simple, and cheap preparation makes no stain and kills the vermin immediately. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- It attracts them by its luminous appearance and also by its odor, which is very attractive to all vermin. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Perfectly secure from human audience, I acted my part before the garret-vermin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
校对:惠特尼