mite

• n. 极小量；小虫；小孩儿；微小的东西

来自古英语mite,小虫，螨，来自Proto-Germanic*mai,砍，切，词源同maim,mangle.字面意思即小剪刀。

1. a slight but appreciable addition;

"this dish could use a touch of garlic"

2. any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

mite

mite: English has two words mite, although they probably share a common origin. The older, ‘tiny insect-like creature’ [OE], goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *mītōn, which was probably derived from a base meaning ‘cut’ (hence ‘something cut up small’). Dutch has the related mijt. The original meaning of mite ‘small thing’ [14] was ‘small coin’ (as in the ‘widow’s mite’). It was used in Flanders for such a coin, worth a third of a penny, and Middle Dutch mīte was borrowed into English. It too goes back to a Germanic mītōn, which is probably the same word as produced the animated mite.

mite (n.1)

"tiny animal, minute arachnid," Old English mite, from Proto-Germanic *miton (cognates: Middle Dutch mite, Dutch mijt, Old High German miza, Danish mide) originally meaning perhaps "the cutter," in reference to its bite, from Proto-Germanic *mait- (cognates: Gothic maitan, Old High German meizen "to cut"), from PIE root *mai- "to cut" (see maim). Or else its original sense is "something small," and it is from PIE *mei- (2) "small," in reference to size (see minus).

mite (n.2)

"little bit," mid-14c., from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German mite "tiny animal," from Proto-Germanic *miton-, from PIE *mei- (2) "small" (see minus), and thus probably identical with mite (n.1). Also the name of a medieval Flemish copper coin of very small value, proverbial in English for "a very small unit of money," hence used since Wyclif to translate Latin minutum from Vulgate in Mark xii:43, itself a translation of Greek lepton. French mite (14c.) is a loan-word from Dutch.

house dust mites

房内的粉尘螨

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Poor little mite!

可怜的小家伙！

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The place looked a mite (= a little) expensive.

这地方看上去稍微有点儿贵。

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I can't help feeling just a mite uneasy about it...

我对此不禁感到一丝不安。

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I think if you were a woman you might feel a mite differently.

我想如果你是女人的话，也许会感到些许不同。

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...an itching skin disorder caused by parasitic mites.

寄生螨虫引起的皮肤瘙痒

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The poor mite was so ill.

可怜的孩子病得这么重。

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The little girl gave her widow's mite to the cause.

小女孩把她仅有的一点钱捐献给了这项事业.

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Occurence And Harm of The Gall Mite Infesting Lycium barbarum L.

与枸杞瘤瘿螨的发生与危害>>相似的文献.

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The mite, such as McGregor has excellent control.

对叶螨 、 全爪螨等均有很好的防治效果.

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I'll contribute my mite.

我要贡献一份力量.

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Why are you on the road at all, a little mite like you?

你为什么流浪呢, 你这么小的孩子?

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I can't eat even a mite of supper.

我连一口晚饭也吃不下.

辞典例句

I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

我告诉你 、 若有半文钱没有还清 、 你断不能从那里出来.

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I offer a mite of comfort to him.

我给了他一点安慰.

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He is a mite taller than I.

他比我高一点点.

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Is mite bug insect? Can that drown water?

螨虫是虫子 吗 ?那是不是可以用水淹死 啊 ?

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Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite , which flourishes in dry conditions.

喷水对于阻止在干燥条件下旺盛生长的红蜘蛛螨虫有奇效.

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The mite is a tiny creature that feeds on honeybees.

这类螨类是一种以蜜蜂为食的微小生物.

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A mite of a.

小得可怜的.

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The above results indicated that chigger mite is atransmitting vector of HFRSV.

以上结果为恙螨的媒介意义提供了具有分子水平的直接证据,对HFRS的流行病学和预防具有重要的理论意义和实用价值.

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Last year more than 30 % of honeybees died from disease, mainly varroa mite.

去年有超过30%的蜜蜂死于疾病, 主要是螨虫.

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Is the skin on the face small red sometimes small is itching mite bug encroach?

脸上皮肤微红有时微痒是螨虫侵犯 吗 ?

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I think he was a mite annoyed.

我想他是有点儿生气了.

辞典例句

A NEW MITE OF THE GENUS WALCHIA ( ACARI: TROMBICULIDAE )

无前恙螨属一新种 ( 蜱螨亚纲: 恙螨科 )

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Objective To study the follicle mite infection in young students of Shanxi.

目的了解山西青年学生蠕形螨的感染情况,研究蠕形螨及蠕形螨病的特性.

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The host of parasite nutrition and natural enemies influenced the change of mite population.

叶螨种群消长也会受到寄主营养及天敌等生物因子的影响.

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