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- any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long slender soft bodies and no limbs（细长的）软体虫, 蠕虫。
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- Phyla Annelida (segmented worms), Nematoda (roundworms), and Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and up to twelve minor phyla包括环节动物门（有环节的虫）, 线虫动物门（圆体不分节的虫）和扁形动物门（扁平无环节的寄生虫）等12门。
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worms
intestinal or other internal parasites寄生虫, 肠虫。
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- used in names of long slender insect larvae, especially those in fruit or wood, e.g. army worm, woodworm用于昆虫名称（尤指在果实或木头中的）昆虫的幼虫, 蛀虫（如黏虫、木蠹等）。
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- used in names of other animals that resemble worms in some way, e.g. slow-worm, shipworm用于昆虫名称蠕虫状动物, 蠕动物（如蛇蜥、船蛆等）。
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- a maggot supposed to eat dead bodies buried in the ground蛆虫：
food for worms.
蛆虫的食物。
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- Computing a self-replicating program able to propagate itself across a network, typically having a detrimental effect【计算机】蠕虫。
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- informal a weak or despicable person (used as a general term of contempt)〈非正式, 贬〉可鄙的家伙, 可怜虫。
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- a helical device or component, in particular螺纹状物, 螺纹状装置, 尤指：
3.1
- the threaded cylinder in a worm gear蜗杆。
3.2
- the coiled pipe of a still in which the vapour is cooled and condensed旋管。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling艰难地爬行, 蠕动前行：
I wormed my way along the roadside ditch.
我沿着路边的沟渠向前爬行。
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worm one's way into
insinuate one's way into钻入, 潜入：the educated dealers may later worm their way into stockbroking.
受过训练的证券经纪人也许以后会钻进股票经纪业。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction move (something) into a confined space by wriggling it使蠕动进入（有限空间）：
I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth.
我扭动右手插到身体和地面之间。
1.3
worm something out of
obtain information from (someone) by cunning persistence刺探, 套问; 千方百计地获取：I did manage to worm a few details out of him.
我的确从他的口中套出了一些细节。
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- with obj. treat (an animal) with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms（给动物）驱虫, 除虫。
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- with obj. Nautical, archaic make (a rope) smooth by winding thread between the strands【航海】〈古〉在（粗绳）外面绕细绳。
短语
(even) a worm will turn
- proverb (even) a meek person will resist or retaliate if pushed too far〈谚〉逼人太甚, 必有反抗。
派生词
worm-like
adjective词源
Old English wyrm (noun)， of Germanic origin; related to Latin vermis 'worm' and Greek rhomox 'woodworm'.