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housefly

/hous-flahy/US // ˈhaʊsˌflaɪ //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌflaɪ) //

苍蝇,家蝇,房屋租赁,苍蝇的故事

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural house·flies.

    • : a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.

Examples

  • There is the housefly, the lesser cabbage white butterfly, and one or two other little things.

  • We make a great fuss over a flea; hardly mention it in polite company; but we tolerate the dirty housefly on all our food.

  • I see him now in my mind's eye, making his annual appearance like a rheumatic housefly, stepping high like a blind horse.

  • They recalled the British housefly, only they were much larger, and extremely pugnacious.

  • The numbers and varieties of bacteria carried by the common housefly in sanitary and insanitary city areas.