| 单词 | germ dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgerm dust b. In sense 4, as germ cloud, germ dust, germ nursery, etc. ΚΠ 1860 Once a Week 14 Jan. 53/1 We must feel not a little astonished at finding the dust we examine so very abundant in starch, coal, silica,..hair, scales, and even live animals, and so strangely deficient in this germ-dust! 1876 Med. Times & Gaz. 29 Jan. 115/2 The surgeon, again, may find an explanation for many a puzzling case..in the theory of germ clouds. 1884 19th Cent. Feb. 331 The disease-germs..rising in germ-clouds and wafted by air-currents. 1897 Daily News 1 June 3/2 The lack of any sort of attempt at efficient sanitation, must, I think, have made of the place a germ nursery [etc.]. 1972 W. H. Auden in New Yorker 24 June 32/1 You've repelled all germ invasions, but never chastised my tantrums with a megrim. 2003 G. Newton From Victoria to Viagra (Wellcome Trust) 20/3 The rapid development of germ work in the 1880s and 1890s was the basis for the development of an understanding of the causes of most infections. < as lemmas |
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