| 单词 | mosquito |
| 释义 | Related topics: Insectsmos·qui·to /məˈskiːtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●○○ noun (plural mosquitoes or mosquitos) [countable] HBIa small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria 蚊子 →4 See picture of 见图 INSECT →5 see picture at 见图 insectExamples from the Corpusmosquito• It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder.• Hanson anticipates ground spraying to kill adult mosquitoes by midweek.• Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.• We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes!• No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.• Then, mosquitoes and steamy jungle heat along a path that went up and up.• But my purse contained torch, mosquito repellent, passport and all the papers needed to subdue bureaucrats from here to Delhi.Origin mosquito (1500-1600) Spanish mosca “fly”, from Latin muscamos·qui·to nounChineseSyllable insect flying small the that a Corpus sucks |
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