microbe
英 [ˈmaɪkrəʊb] 美 [ˈmaɪkroʊb]

n.

微生物，细菌；

变形

复数：microbes

英英释义

microbe[ 'maikrəub ]

• n.a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

  同义词：buggerm

同近义词辨析

bacteria, germ, virus, bug, microbe

这组词都有“致病的微生物”的意思，其区别是：

bacteria(系bacterium的复数形式)，泛指任何在动植物体中广泛传播的微生物细菌，其中有的对生命体无害，有的能导致传染病或严重疾病，如天花、霍乱等。

germ微生物的俗称，专指引起人体生命的病菌。

virus技术用语，特指病毒或过滤性病原体。

bug非正式用词，指细菌或由病毒所引起的传染病。

microbe本义指在显微镜下才能见到的微生物，现在多指引起疾病的细菌。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The probe is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single microbe.
   这个探针的灵敏度很高，足以测出任何微生物的存在。
2. Being small may also have helped the microbe absorb nutrients more efficiently.
   体积微小同样可以帮助微生物更加有效地吸收养分。
3. A quiet meteorologist first noticed the microbe menace.
   一位沉默寡言的气象学家首先注意到了细菌威胁。

权威例句

Principles of microbe and cell cultivation.
Signaling in plant-microbe interactions.
Host-Microbe Interactions: Shaping the Evolution of the Plant Immune Response
Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease.
Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells.
Death Don't Have No Mercy: Cell Death Programs in Plant-Microbe Interactions
Death Don't Have Mo Mercy: Cell Death Programs in Plant-Microbe Interactions
An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human-microbe mutualism and disease.
Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions.
A renaissance of elicitors: perception of microbe-associated molecular patterns and danger signals by pattern-recognition receptors