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Leech Worm Small Blood Sucking Lives Water People Sucking

英语单词 leech
英美音标 英 [liːtʃ] 美 [liːtʃ]
中文释义 n.水蛭;榨取他人利益的人
v.以水蛭吸血
英语例句 (1) A leech is a small blood-sucking worm and usually lives in water.
(2) I reject the notion that any user is a freeloader or a leech.
(3) The leech hangs about other people hoping to obtain money.
中文例句 (1) 水蛭是一种小型吸血虫,通常生活在水中。
(2) 我拒绝任何用户都是一个揩油者或者占他人便宜者这种看法。
(3) 那个吸血鬼依附于他人希望获得钱财。
vocabulary简明 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.
vocabulary扩展 Because leeches are parasites, it's common for people to use the word as a metaphor for someone who sponges off of other people. If you have a friend who is always borrowing money but never pays it back, and who is known for requesting favors without granting them in return, you can call him a leech. The blood-sucking leech was once commonly used by doctors who treated patients by "bleeding" them, a practice that's still occasionally used in medicine today.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]水蛭;蚂蟥 A leech is a small animal which looks like a worm and lives in water. Leeches feed by attaching themselves to other animals and sucking their blood.
    2
    [N-COUNT 可数名词]吸血鬼;寄生虫 If you describe someone as a leech, you disapprove of them because they deliberately depend on other people, often making money out of them.
      [disapproval]
    • They're just a bunch of leeches cadging off others!

      他们只不过是一帮伸手向人要这要那的寄生虫!

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