英语词汇“leech”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

leech1

/liːtʃ

noun

1An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech.

The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker....

While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water.
It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.

2A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others: they are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority...

These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless.
Robby had always known that the business was filled with leeches and liars - confused, timid men and women whose only chance of achieving success was to latch onto someone who had been deemed successful by others.

Synonyms

parasite, clinger, barnacle, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout;

extortioner;

sycophant, toady, hanger-on, fawner, yes man

informal scrounger, sponger, freeloader, ligger, junketeer

North American informal mooch, moocher

verb [no object] (leech on/off)

Habitually exploit or rely on: he’s leeching off the abilities of others...

Those people who operate these servers… are parasites leeching off the creativity of others.
The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone leeched off it in this way.
If you want to leech off someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine.

Phrases

like a leech

Origin

Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke.

physician from Middle English:
The Old English word for a medical doctor was leech (despite popular belief, nothing to do with the worm, but a word meaning ‘a healer’). Physician arrived in the early Middle Ages, and goes back to Greek phusis ‘nature’, the root also of physical (Late Middle English), physics (Late Middle English), and numerous other English words. A doctor (Middle English) was originally not a physician but any learned person able to give an authoritative opinion, especially one of the early Christian theologians. The word started referring specifically to a medical expert at the start of the 15th century. It comes from doctor, the Latin for ‘teacher’, also found in words such as docile (Late Middle English) ‘willing to learn’; document (Late Middle English) ‘official paper, proof’; and doctrine (Late Middle English), originally the action of teaching.

Rhymes

leech2

/liːtʃ

noun archaic

A doctor or healer.

Origin

Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin.

leech3

/liːtʃ

noun Sailing

The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail.

Origin

Late 15th century: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing.

单词	leech
释义	leech1 /liːtʃ / noun 1An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators. Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech. The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.... While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water. It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches. 2A person who extorts profit from or sponges on others: they are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority... These adversaries were leeches, cowards who feed on the weak and helpless. Robby had always known that the business was filled with leeches and liars - confused, timid men and women whose only chance of achieving success was to latch onto someone who had been deemed successful by others. Synonyms parasite, clinger, barnacle, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout; extortioner; sycophant, toady, hanger-on, fawner, yes man informal scrounger, sponger, freeloader, ligger, junketeer North American informal mooch, moocher verb [no object] (leech on/off) Habitually exploit or rely on: he’s leeching off the abilities of others... Those people who operate these servers… are parasites leeching off the creativity of others. The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone leeched off it in this way. If you want to leech off someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine. Phrases like a leech Origin Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke. physician from Middle English: The Old English word for a medical doctor was leech (despite popular belief, nothing to do with the worm, but a word meaning ‘a healer’). Physician arrived in the early Middle Ages, and goes back to Greek phusis ‘nature’, the root also of physical (Late Middle English), physics (Late Middle English), and numerous other English words. A doctor (Middle English) was originally not a physician but any learned person able to give an authoritative opinion, especially one of the early Christian theologians. The word started referring specifically to a medical expert at the start of the 15th century. It comes from doctor, the Latin for ‘teacher’, also found in words such as docile (Late Middle English) ‘willing to learn’; document (Late Middle English) ‘official paper, proof’; and doctrine (Late Middle English), originally the action of teaching. Rhymes beach, beech, beseech, bleach, breach, breech, each, impeach, leach, outreach, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach leech2 /liːtʃ / noun archaic A doctor or healer. Origin Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin. leech3 /liːtʃ / noun Sailing The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail. Origin Late 15th century: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing.
随便看	tropical tropical cyclone tropical depression tropical forest tropical fruit Tropicalia tropicalise tropical island tropicalism tropicalismo tropicalist tropicalista tropicality tropicalize tropically tropical medicine tropical month tropical rain tropical rainforest tropical sprue tropical storm tropicamide nage-waza nagger nagging