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dust mite

尘螨,螨虫,粉尘螨,尘埃

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various mites, especially Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and D. farinae, that ingest shed skin cells and may cause allergic reactions.

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  • Dust, animal dander, bacteria, dust mites, mold and mildew can alter the quality of the air you breathe.

  • With nothing but piping-hot water, the best steam cleaner will wipe out every dust mite, microbe, and dirt fleck that dares set foot in your home.

  • Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.

  • Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.

  • That is a lot of air pollution, noise, and yet more kicking up of dust.

  • “I have full faith that this will happen,” Williams says, prepping her fairy dust for a flurry of happy thoughts.

  • If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.

  • One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.

  • To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!

  • In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.

  • It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

  • Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.