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　

考研TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8医学

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
  Synonym:leechspongesponger

双语例句

• Mosquitoes pick up the malaria parasite by sucking blood from an infected person.
  蚊子在从感染了疟疾的人身上吸血时吸入了寄生的疟原虫。
• The mistletoe plant is a parasite on trees.
  槲寄生是寄生于树上的植物。
• One of the ways the parasite spreads is through fecal matter.
  寄生虫传播的一种方式是通过排泄物。
• 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。
• Winds and rain spread the parasite.
  风和雨都能传播寄生虫。
• The host of this parasite is the first domestic cats from the faeces of cats found in Toxoplasma gondii.
  这种寄生虫最初的寄主是家猫，可以从猫类的粪便中找到弓形虫。
• 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。
• But parasite and toxin in the soil also can cause fatal influence to the human body.
  不过，泥土中的寄生虫和毒素也会对-人体产生致命影响。
• Plasmodium vivax, the worlds most common malaria parasite, now infects people previously considered to be resistant.
  间日疟原虫是世上最常见的疟疾寄生虫，现在，这种寄生虫也会感染那些之前被认为抗疟疾病的人。
• After feeding, they pass a parasite called trypanosoma cruzi in their faeces.
  吸血后，它们将一种叫作克氏锥虫的寄生虫排到其粪便中。