英汉词典

germ 基本解释

• n. [植] 胚芽，萌芽；细菌
• vi. 萌芽

germ 词态变化

germ 中文词源

来自拉丁语germen, 来自词根gen, 生育，萌芽，词源同generate. 字母n在m前r 化，比较carcinogen, 来自cancer. 后用于科学术语，细菌。

germ 英文词源

germ

germ: [17] As its close relatives germane and germinate [17] suggest, germ has more to do etymologically with ‘sprouting’ and ‘coming to life’ than with ‘disease’. It comes via Old French germe from Latin germen ‘sprout, offshoot’, which may go back ultimately to the Indo- European base *gen- ‘produce’ (source of English gene, generate, genitive, etc).

The meaning ‘sprout, from which new life develops’ persisted into English (and still occurs in such contexts as wheatgerm – and indeed in metaphorical expressions like ‘the germ of an idea’). Then at the beginning of the 19th century it began to be used to put into words the idea of a ‘seed’ from which a disease grew: ‘The vaccine virus must act in one or other of these two ways: either it must destroy the germe of the small-pox … or it must neutralize this germe’, Medical Journal 1803.

By the end of the century it was an accepted colloquialism for ‘harmful microorganism’.
=> germane, germinate

germ (n.)

mid-15c., "bud, sprout;" 1640s, "rudiment of a new organism in an existing one," from Middle French germe "germ (of egg); bud, seed, fruit; offering," from Latin germen (genitive germinis) "spring, offshoot; sprout, bud," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *gen-, *gene- "to beget, bear" (see german (adj.)). The older sense is preserved in wheat germ and germ of an idea; sense of "seed of a disease" first recorded 1796 in English; that of "harmful micro-organism" dates from 1871. Germ warfare recorded from 1920.

germ 英文释义

1. anything that provides inspiration for later work

2. a small simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

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

germ 同义词解析

germ, bacteria, virus, microbe, bug

这些名词都含"致病的微生物"之意。

germ： 微生物的俗称，专指引起人体生命的病菌。

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。

virus： 技术用语，特指病毒或过滤性病原体。

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。

bug： 非正式用词，指细菌或由病毒所引起的传染病。

germ 双语例句

1. The germ of an idea took root in Rosemary's mind.

罗斯玛丽心里萌生了一个念头。

来自柯林斯例句

2. This germ is found on things used by the patients.

这种细菌附着在病人使用过的东西上.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. I have the germ of an idea.

我有一个初步的想法.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. " Me thought the germ of it was dead in me!

“ 我还以为喜悦的胚胎已经在我心中死掉了呢!

来自英汉文学 - 红字

5. This was the germ of a book.

这是一本书的源起。

来自辞典例句

germ 实用场景例句

Disinfectant kills germs.

消毒剂可杀菌。

牛津词典

Dirty hands can be a breeding ground for germs.

脏手会滋生病菌。

牛津词典

Here was the germ of a brilliant idea.

一个绝妙的主意就是从这里萌发的。

牛津词典

Chlorine is widely used to kill germs.

氯气被广泛用于杀菌。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a germ that destroyed hundreds of millions of lives.

夺去了无数生命的细菌

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The germ of an idea took root in Rosemary's mind...

罗斯玛丽心里萌生了一个念头。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This was the germ of a book.

这是一本书的源起。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I have the germ of an idea.

我有一个初步的想法.

《简明英汉词典》

One , the main factor 1 that affects climate of produce price movement. Historical germ.

影响农产品价格运动趋势的主要因素1.历史的根源.

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Plague is still studied by governments and terrorist organizations for possible germ warfare applications.

鼠疫仍然是研究由政府和恐怖分子组织可能细菌战的应用.

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Extraction of oil from the wheat germ defatted wheat germ.

脱脂肪麦胚是小麦胚提油后的产品.

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Include natural chitin, clean pet hair deeply, deodorize, restrain growth and breeding of germ.

内含天然甲壳素, 针对宠物毛发能深层洁净 、 去除臭味 、 抑制微菌生长繁殖.

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It's just the germ of an idea, but something may come of it.

这只是个初步的想法, 但是也许能“有所 ” 成就.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽.

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This germ is found on things used by the patients.

这种细菌附着在病人使用过的东西上.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Conservation of the germ plasm resources is a subject of significance in conservation biology.

种质资源保护是保护生物学的重要内容之一.

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Conclusion: Shh and its receptor are expressed during the late bell stage of mouse tooth germ.

结论: Shh及 其受体Ptc在小鼠牙胚钟状晚期有表达.

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The prize was a tangible testimony that she had a germ of writing ability.

这个“奖”是一个具体的证明,说明她具有创作才能.

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MEHTODS: By immunohistochemistry, SHIP expression was examined in the tissue membrane , alveolar bone, permanent tooth germ.

方法: 应用免疫组织化学的方法检测SHIP在犬乳恒牙替换期组织中的表达.

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This beetle eats mainly the germ of the grain.

这种甲虫主要吃谷物的胚芽.

辞典例句

A germ is the earliest form of a living thing.

胚芽是生物的最早形式.

辞典例句

Wheat germ , a by product of flour milling , was developed to produce healthy protein beverage.

以制粉业的副产品小麦胚芽为原料, 开发研制符合人们生理健康需要的植物蛋白饮料.

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Natural, the germ of this kind of diversification depends on individual demand increasingly diversity.

自然, 这种多样化的根源在于个人需求的日益多元化.

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Producing data private ownership is the foundation of violent germ and influence.

生产资料私有制是暴力的根源和权力的基础.

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Investigate its germ, the most essential is to lack effective constituent system to drive.

究其根源, 最根本的是缺乏有效的组织制度来推动.

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Being in a " germ factory " is not necessarily all bad.

在一个 “ 细菌工厂 ” 并不完全是不好的.

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In Ishvara, the Gurudeva, the germ of all knowledge expands into infinity.

至上的灵性之海, 他是所有知识无限扩展的本源.

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