汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 蝨子
蝨子 (虱子)
louse (Pediculus humanus)
亦作"虱子"。 哺乳动物的体外寄生虫。浅黄色或灰黑色﹐有短毛﹐头小﹐无翅﹐腹部大﹐刺吸式口器。常寄生在人畜身体上﹐吸食血液。寄生在人体上的有头虱﹑体虱﹑阴虱等﹐能传染斑疹伤寒和回归热等疾病。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

它可能是染上虱子了。

It was probably infested with cooties.

而体虱与大猩猩虱子有关系,1千3百万年前与大猩猩虱子分道扬镳。

The human pubic louse, on the other hand, is related to the gorilla louse, from which it parted company some 13 million years ago.

囚犯用的被褥上面都是虱子

A prison blanket had given me lice.

所以生物学家长期为此困惑:为什么人类的头虱是黑猩猩虱子的近亲。而阴虱却是大猩猩虱子的近亲。

So biologists have long been puzzled over the fact that the human head louse is a sister species to the chimpanzee louse, but the pubic louse is closely related to the gorilla louse.

他说一声,苍蝇就成群而来,并有虱子进入他们四境。

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

这种新的方法要借助对虱子系统树的重建。

The new approach rests on reconstructing the family tree of lice.

在世界第一件衣服出现后虱子也就和我们形影不离了。

So lice have been with us since the world's first clothes were made.

窦,你在这的日子里我们有没有爆发过虱子蔓延?

Doug. The whole time you been here, have we ever had a lice outbreak?

人体上的虱子物种反映了猿和人类进化历程的分节点。

Species of human lice thus mirror the splits in the tree of ape and human evolution.

但是它们不会一直寄生在它们的宿主身上(虱子才会),当鸟儿羽翼丰满时,鸡蚤就会离开。

But they do not (as, for example, lice do) live on their hosts continually. Once a bird fledges, therefore, it leaves its parasites behind.