louse

• n. 虱子；寄生虫；卑鄙的家伙
• vt. 搞糟；清除（虱子）

来自PIE*lus,虱子。其复词形式为lice.

1. wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

2. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

3. any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

4. wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

louse (n.)

"parasitic insect infecting human hair and skin," Old English lus, from Proto-Germanic *lus (cognates: Old Norse lus, Middle Dutch luus, Dutch luis, Old High German lus, German Laus), from PIE *lus- "louse" (cognates: Welsh lleuen "louse"). Slang meaning "obnoxious person" is from 1630s. The plural lice (Old English lys) shows effects of i-mutation. The verb meaning "to clear of lice" is from late 14c.; to louse up "ruin, botch" first attested 1934, from the literal sense (of bedding), from 1931. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785] has louse ladder "A stitch fallen in a stocking."

head lice

头虱

牛津词典

The carpenter up the joints of the table which had become louse.

木匠用螺丝钉把桌子上松动的木榫头固定.

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March turned out to be a louse, and his wife of two weeks left him.

马奇是个讨厌的人, 他妻子跟他过了两星期就和他分手了.

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After all I'm a man, not a louse.

毕竟我还是一个人, 不是一个虱子.

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A mouse and a louse are living in the house.

一只老鼠和一只虱子生活在一间房子里.

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W : The virus came to the tulip from a louse living on peaches and potatoes.

W:这些病毒来自于桃子和土豆上的一种寄生虫.

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Only humans carry this particular species of louse, which lays its eggs in clothing.

根据德国的研究人员表示,虱子为衣服的发展史提供了洞察线索.

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Anyway, I belonged to another hierarchy. They wouldn't even share louse with the likes of me.

总之我是属于另一阶层的, 他们甚至不愿同我这种人分享一只虱子.

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The bloodsucking louse also transmits various commutable diseases such as endemic typhus, trench fever relapsing fever.

虱吸血还可传播各种流行病,体虱被认为是传播流行性斑疹伤寒 、 回归热和战壕热的主要媒介.

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And then, you accept another loneliness who always louse around in the high.

于是, 你接纳了另一个寂寞,一个高处游荡的寂寞.

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Neem, olive oil, tea tree oil etc, which can be used for treating louse.

印楝, 橄榄油, 茶树油等, 可用于治疗头虱.

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Dick, s weak guinea pig kicked Mike's quick louse.

迪克那只虚弱的天竺鼠踢了麦克那只动作敏捷的扁蚤.

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Always she feared lest some louse had escaped her.

她总是害怕有个虱子逃过了他的惩处.

飘（部分）

This louse devastated European vineyards between 1860 and 1880 and its descendants are now ravaging Californian grape vines.

这种虫害在1860年到1880年间毁灭了欧洲葡萄园,而它们的后代现在也给加州的葡萄秧造成损害.

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A parasitic louse ( Pediculus humanus corporis ) that infests the body and clothes of human beings.

一种寄生的昆虫 ( 体虱虱属 ),寄生在人的身体或衣服上.

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The louse is a lousing , and so on.

虱子就是虱子, 等等.

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You're not sentimental, you're just a louse.

你不是感性, 只是卑鄙的家伙.

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