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Microbial simply means relating to - the tiny living things, like bacteria and some fungi, that you can only see under a microscope. You'll see it in phrases like 'microbial growth' or 'microbial fermentation,' describing processes caused by these tiny organisms.
微生物的
組成microbe + -ial (an adjective suffix)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
microbialadj/maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/
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Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
- The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
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Small; tiny; minuscule.
- As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.
microbialnoun/maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/
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A microbe or bacterium.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。