英:[fliː]
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复数:fleas
noun
any of an order of tiny wingless insects that move by jumping, and feed by sucking the blood of warm-blooded animals.
any similar insect or crustacean that moves like the flea.
flea market跳蚤市场;廉价市场
water flea[昆]水蚤(等于Cladocera)
古英语 flea “跳蚤”,源自原始日耳曼语 *flauhaz(也源自古诺尔斯语 flo,中古荷兰语 vlo,德语 Floh),可能与古英语 fleon “逃跑”有关,意为“跳跃的寄生虫”,但更可能源自原始印欧语 *plou- “跳蚤”(也源自拉丁语 pulex,希腊语 psylla; 参见 Pulex)。
乔叟的复数形式是 fleen。1839年, Flea-bag 作为低俗用语指“床”; 1942年,英国俚语中指“狗”。Flea-collar 出现于1953年。Flea-pit(1937年)是电影院的一个老俚语名称,或者如 OED 所说,“一个据称有害虫的公共集会场所”。Flea-circus 出现于1886年。
"A man named 'Mueller' put on the first trained-flea circus in America at the old Stone and Austin museum in Boston nearly forty years ago. Another German named 'Auvershleg' had the first traveling flea circus in this country thirty years ago. In addition to fairs and museums, I get as high as $25 for a private exhibition." ["Professor" William Heckler, quoted in Popular Mechanics, February 1928. Printed at the top of his programs were "Every action is visible to the naked eye" and "No danger of desertion."]
“四十年前,一个名叫‘穆勒’的人在波士顿的史东和奥斯汀博物馆上演了美国第一场训练跳蚤马戏团。三十年前,另一位名叫‘奥弗斯莱格’的德国人在这个国家开了第一家巡回跳蚤马戏团。除了集市和博物馆,我还可以得到高达25美元的私人表演。”(“教授”威廉·赫克勒,引自《Popular Mechanics》,1928年2月。他的节目单上印着“每个动作都可以用肉眼看到”和“没有逃兵的危险”)
蚤:任何蚤目(Siphonaptera)昆虫
许多是寄生性的,可携带病原。具有医学意义的属有:蚤属(Cediopsylla),角叶蚤属(Ceratophyllus),栉头蚤属(Ctenocephalides),栉眼蚤属(Ctenophthalmus),细蚤属(Leptopsylla),穿手蚤属(Diamanus),角头蚤属(Echidnophaga),松鼠蚤属(Hoplopsyllus),单蚤属(Monopsyllus),新蚤属(Neopsylla),病蚤属(Nosopsyllus),山蚤属(Oropsylla),蚤属(Pulex),洞蚤属(Rhopalopsyllus),潜蚤属(Tunga),客蚤属(Xenopsylla)
Middle English fle, from Old English flēa; akin to Old High German flōh flea
The first known use of flea was before the 12th century
fleabanenoun
any of various plants related to the daisies
fleanoun
any of an order of small wingless bloodsucking insects with a hard body and legs used for leaping
fleanoun
any of the order Siphonaptera comprising wingless bloodsucking insects that have a hard laterally compressed body and legs adapted to leaping and that feed on warm-blooded animals see cat flea, chigoe sense 1, dog flea, rat flea, sand flea, sticktight flea
1 But there was no sound, no thump, thump, thump of a paw scratching fleas and hitting the floor underneath.
2 From a jar of fleas before him, the celebrated experimenter Van Dumholtz carefully removes a single flea, gently pulls off its back legs, and in a loud voice commands it to jump.
3 The steel scissors are from the same North Carolina flea where the bull's head was bought.
钢的剪刀和牛头都来自北卡罗来纳州的一个跳蚤市场。
4 The walls of the room were pale yellow, and behind him I saw a glossy poster with a puppy on it—an advertisement for a flea treatment.
5 Despite this, I couldn’t resist scratching the flea bites clus- tered at my ankles, making the skin more and more raw, oozing blood and pus.
6 Image above: We picked up these amazing vintage bar stools from the Brooklyn Flea.
上图:这些旧的酒吧凳来自布鲁克林跳蚤市场。
7 I hear for a fact that places that have snakes galore have no fleas.
8 An’ isn’t it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an’ the English brought in the fleas.
9 A slap followed if the teacher saw lice or fleas.
10 I told him a lot about Baba, his job, the flea market, and how, at the end, he’d died happy.
11 There are more than a thousand kinds of fleas in the world.
世界上有1000多种跳蚤.
12 The dog has fleas.
这条狗有跳蚤。
13 There are many outdoor flea markets in Europe.
在欧洲有许多户外跳蚤市场.
14 Tea, Politics, and Scandal, the ingredients of an Afghan Sunday at the flea market.
15 So, yeah, I have a terrible stepdad, and I don't have a phone, and sometimes when we're out of dish soap, I wash my hair with flea and tick shampoo.
16 He began to scratch himself as if his shirt were crawling with fleas, which, Jemmy thought, it probably was.
17 Just like fleas, they fail to jump higher, thinking they are doing all they can do.
他们就像跳蚤那样, 无法跳得更高, 甚至认为自己只能做到这种程度.
18 Marke but this flea, and marke in this, how that which thou denys me is.
光看看这只跳蚤, 看看在它体内, 你拒绝我的东西是多么微乎其微.
19 She wants that room on Hartstonge Street, a nice warm comfortable room with a lavatory down the hall like the one in Brooklyn, a room without fleas and the dampness that kills.
20 He filled the kettle and the pot with water, stood the mattress against the wall, pounded it with a shoe, told me to keep pouring water on the ground to drown the fleas dropping there.
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