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germ

/jurm/US // dʒɜrm //UK // (dʒɜːm) //

胚芽,细菌,胚胎,菌种

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
    • : a bud, offshoot, or seed.
    • : the rudiment of a living organism; an embryo in its early stages.
    • : the initial stage in development or evolution, as a germ cell or ancestral form.
    • : something that serves as a source or initial stage for subsequent development: the germ of an idea.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. of, relating to, or caused by disease-producing germs.

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Examples

  • Some coronavirus experts have suggested that on reinfection the covid-19 germ will stay in the upper airway, causing sniffles, rather than penetrating the lungs to cause pneumonia.

  • A world of germs is vying to invade your body and make you sick.

  • Among such immune people, a germ now has a hard time finding a new host.

  • Without masks, people sick with the new coronavirus can likely spread the germs even without coughing or sneezing.

  • Scientists might also use this information to learn how such germs keep their hosts — us — healthy.

  • And despite years of speculation, nobody has proved Assad has any germ warfare capability at all.

  • “Those practices did develop out of concerns about germ-sharing about a century ago,” she said.

  • When asked if the potential for germ-sharing bothered her, she scoffed: “Not at all.”

  • Eisner, who lives in a city obsessed with health, has noticed that people have gotten quite germ-phobic.

  • In the meantime, toss out that beef jerky, and bust open that vat of wheat-germ!

  • There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

  • A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

  • Mr. William Aird, the germ-proof man, has been giving demonstrations in London.

  • It is reported that last week a germ snapped at him and broke off two of its teeth.

  • The boy struck him as talented, but nothing made him suspect the germ of a great composer.