mites

英 [maɪts]

美 [maɪts]

n.  螨(状似蜘蛛的微小动物，在动植物、地毯等上生活); (可怜的)小孩子，小动物; 少量
mite的复数

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 一点点;极少量
  A mitemeans to a small extent or degree. It is sometimes used to make a statement less extreme.
  1. I can't help feeling just a mite uneasy about it...
     我对此不禁感到一丝不安。
  2. 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。
• N-COUNT (生存在植物上或动物皮毛中的)螨
  Mitesare very tiny creatures that live on plants, for example, or in animals' fur.
  1. ...an itching skin disorder caused by parasitic mites.
     寄生螨虫引起的皮肤瘙痒
• N-COUNT （可怜的）小孩，小家伙
  If you refer to a small child as a poor littlemite, you mean that you feel sorry for them.
  1. The poor mite was so ill.
     可怜的孩子病得这么重。

双语例句

• To enrich mite research ofRattus nitidus, here, the mite communities ofRattus nitidus and the potential medical and veterinary important of these mites are described.
  为了丰富大足鼠体表寄生螨的研究，在此，对大足鼠的体表寄生螨群落和体表寄生螨医学和兽医学的重要性进行了描述。
• Beekeepers and scientists have suspected everything from cell-phone radiation or climate change to mites or pesticides.
  养蜂人和科学工作者们曾经怀疑许多的原因，从手机辐射、气候变迁到螨虫感染或杀虫剂。
• Mites form one of the most important and complex communities of arthropods in tea plantations.
  螨类是茶园生态系统中重要且复杂的类群之一。
• Dermatophagoides farinae is one of the main pathogenic mites causing human acariasis.
  粉尘螨是人体螨病的主要病原螨之一。
• AimTo detect Orientia tsutsugamushi in chigger mites and analyse the epidemic trend of scrub typhus in Fujian Province.
  目的检测恙螨幼虫体内恙虫病东方体，分析福建恙虫病可能流行的趋势。
• Farmers use it to protect crops from insects, worms and mites.
  农民用它们保护庄稼以防昆虫，蠕虫和小虫的危害。
• The majority of mites in the soil layer eat small insects or their eggs.
  土层中的绝大多数螨虫以小昆虫或它们的卵为食。
• Other causes include organisms such as dust mites and molds.
  另外一些引起过敏的原因包括如尘螨和真菌等微生物。
• In 1996, two groups did field tests of genetically modified mites and worms.
  1996年有两组科学家对转基因的螨虫和蠕虫做了野外试验。
• Spiders, mites, etc. come under the head of Arachnida.
  蜘蛛、螨等归入蛛形纲。