worming

英 [ˈwɜːmɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɜːrmɪŋ]

v.  蠕动，曲折行进(尤指通过狭窄或拥挤的地方); 给(动物)驱肠虫
worm的现在分词

化学

柯林斯词典

• 蠕虫
  Awormis a small animal with a long thin body, no bones and no legs.
• (动物或人体内的)寄生虫，肠虫
  If animals or people haveworms, worms are living in their intestines.
• VERB 给(动物)驱寄生虫
  If youworman animal, you give it medicine in order to kill the worms that are living in its intestines.
  1. I worm all my birds in early spring...
     早春的时候我给我所有的鸟打虫。
  2. All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months.
     所有的成年狗至少每半年要例行打一次虫。
• VERB 艰难地移动；蜷缩着身子走
  If youwormyourwaysomewhere, you move there with difficulty, twisting or bending your body or making it narrow.
  1. I had to worm my way out sideways from the bench in a ridiculous, undignified fashion...
     我侧着身子艰难地从长凳上移开，那个样子很可笑，很不雅观。
  2. The kitten wormed its way through the just-open door.
     小猫缩着身子从刚开了一点儿的门中挤过来。
• VERB (通常为欺骗别人或得到好处)逐渐取得(成功或好感)
  If you say that someoneis wormingtheirwayto success, oris wormingtheirwayinto someone else's affection, you disapprove of the way that they are gradually making someone trust them or like them, often in order to deceive them or gain some advantage.
  1. She never misses a chance to worm her way into the public's hearts...
     她从不放过任何博取公众欢心的机会。
  2. Everyone knows people who have wormed their way up on old school connections.
     每个人都认识一些利用老同学关系向上爬的人。
• 可怜虫;软蛋;卑鄙的家伙
  If you call a person aworm, you are insulting them by saying that they have a very weak or unpleasant character and you have no respect for them.
• “蠕虫”病毒
  Awormis a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network.
• PHRASE 极为棘手的问题
  If you say that someone is openinga can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
  1. You've opened up a whole new can of worms here I think. We could have a whole debate on student loans and grants...
     我认为你在此引发了一个极为棘手的全新问题，我们可能会就学生贷款和助学金展开一次大辩论。
  2. Drug abuse is a can of worms nobody wants to open at sporting events.
     滥用药物是体育赛事中无人想要触及的棘手问题。
• PHRASE 蠕虫被踩，也会翻腾；兔子急了也咬人
  If you say thatthe worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  1. Now the worm turns, and his wife Elizabeth chucks him out and takes a lover herself.
     现在他妻子伊丽莎白被逼急了，把他撵了出去，自己找了个情人。

双语例句

• She was sure that he knew where Chao Po-tao had gone, and she was thinking of some way of worming the truth out of this sly young fellow.
  她料来韩孟翔一定知道老赵的新地方，她打算用点手段从这刁滑小伙子的心里挖出真话来。
• According to the locomotion method of imitating underwater creatures, bionic underwater robot can be classified into three classes: fish robot, walking underwater robot and worming underwater robot.
  仿生水下机器人按照模仿水下生物的运动方式可分为：仿鱼水下机器人、仿多足爬行动物水下机器人和仿蠕虫水下机器人。
• Someone is worming his way into your heart.
  有人在讨你的欢心呢。
• The new idea of a pneumatic worming robot self-climbing, maintaining and inspecting stayed cables is presented in this paper.
  提出用气动蠕动式爬升机器人自爬升缆索对其进行检测和维护的新思想。
• However, the instability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet will increase with the climatic worming and thus will become the most important in the factors causing the sea level rise.
  但是西南极冰盖的不稳定性可能随气候持续变暖而增强，成为引起海平面上升的最重要潜在因素。
• She was very clever at worming the secrets out of her sister.
  她非常聪明从她姐姐那里探知秘密。
• She was worming out of him shameful secrets about the Templar family.
  她正在从他那里探知有关坦普勒家族的丑闻。
• A pneumatic microrobot has been developed based on the principle of worming motion, the worming mechanism of which consists of two holding parts and a thruster.
  在蚯蚓蠕动原理的基础上研制了一种微型气动式机器人，其蠕动机构由两个柔性保持器和一个推进器组成。
• He succeeded in worming himself into power.
  他成功地爬进了掌权阶层。
• Hedge funds are slowly worming their way back into the portfolios of European investors.
  对冲基金正慢慢重新回到欧洲投资者的投资组合中。