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/məˈskiːtoʊ/ · /məˈskiːtəʊ/
a small flying insect that bites people and animals and takes a little blood; it can sometimes carry sickness.
蚊子
複數 mosquitoesmosquitos
核心畫面
The thin whining insect that finds your ankle in the dark, takes a drop of blood, and leaves an itchy bump behind. Small, fast, and — in warm places — the reason people sleep under nets.
可以想成：黑暗中在耳邊嗡嗡叫、找上你腳踝的那隻細細的小蟲，吸走一滴血，留下一個癢包。這個字就只指這種昆蟲，沒有引申用…更多收起
可以想成：黑暗中在耳邊嗡嗡叫、找上你腳踝的那隻細細的小蟲，吸走一滴血，留下一個癢包。這個字就只指這種昆蟲，沒有引申用法；在熱帶地方它還牽著另一層意義——蚊帳、防蚊液、登革熱都是因為牠。原始詞典資料5 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。
Mosquitoname詞源 1
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A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mosquitonoun詞源 1
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historicalThe De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
mosquitonoun/mɒˈskiː.təʊ/
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A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.
- I do not quite know what it was that made me poke my head out of the friendly shelter of the blanket, perhaps because I found that the mosquitoes were biting right through it.
- We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.
mosquitoverb/mɒˈskiː.təʊ/
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To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。