- 1微生物（不一定會致病；致病的才常被叫病菌）
A microbe is a living thing so small that you need a microscope to see it. Bacteria are microbes; so are many tiny fungi and other little lives in soil, water, and on our skin. Some microbes make people ill — those are the ones everyday English calls — but though actually, most microbes do not attack us. Plenty of them help us, for example in the gut, or by breaking down dead plants. Scientists still argue about viruses: a virus is even smaller, and some people say it is not truly “alive,” yet in ordinary talk viruses still get called microbes. Microbe is a slightly more textbook word than ; in class and in health news you will hear both.
組成Borrowed from French microbe, from Ancient Greek mikrós (“small”) + bíos (“life”). By surface analysis, micro- + -obe.
同家族的字
- microscopesame micro- meaning small; you need one to see a microbe
- biologysame bio- / bíos meaning life
- microbiologythe study of microbes
- microorganismanother word for a tiny living thing
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
microbenoun/ˈmaɪkɹəʊb/
- 1
biologymicrobiologynatural-sciencesAny microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
- We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.
- Yes, there are microbes everywhere and most are just fine for us, perhaps even beneficial to our microbiomes and immune systems. We don’t care about those.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。