leech
水蛭
definition
verb
he's leeching off the kindness of others
habitually exploit or rely on.
noun
The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
an aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.
they are leeches feeding off the hardworking majority
a person who extorts profit from or sponges on others.
translation of 'leech'
noun
马蟥,
吸血鬼,
蛭,
水蛭,
马鳖
example
The 'leech' is invaluable in microsurgery when faced with the difficulties of reattaching minute veins.
While at rest, the medicinal 'leech' lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water.
You get well, the 'leech' gets fed, and everyone lives happily ever after.
In 1833 alone, French doctors imported 41.5 million 'leeches' - a measure of the prevalence of bleeding.
Like people, 'leeches' do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting.
Ever since doctors were using 'leeches' , policy makers have been leveraging the threat of a medical crisis as a tool to change our minds.
For over 2000 years, 'leeches' were needlessly applied for many ailments as an adjunct to blood letting.
And we don't get treated at the doctors with 'leeches' anymore!
Tiger balm is great because it is easy to carry in your pocket, it's not messy and the 'leeches' hate it.
He says today's development economics is like eighteenth-century medicine, when doctors would use 'leeches' to draw blood from their patients and half the time kill them in the process.
But some of these operations might have failed if 'leeches' had not been reintroduced into the operating room.
The study also shows that wild European medicinal 'leeches' are at least three distinct species, not one.
The key to identification of 'leeches' covers several features, including the number and placement of the eyes.
At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of 'leeches' , country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
Piggybacking or 'leeching on' timely news is common as well, making it harder still to have any lasting impact.
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.
Once considered a symbol of the practices of medieval physicians, medical 'leeches' have emerged as a useful component of certain modern therapeutic protocols.
If you want to 'leech off' someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine.
The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone 'leeched off' it in this way.
These adversaries were 'leeches' , cowards who feed on the weak and helpless.
I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being 'leeched on' by the thousand.
It's a bit of a shame, especially as the 'leeches' used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.
In the mid-1970s 'leeches' revolutionized the live-bait business in nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.
He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the 'leeches' the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood.
Most of the 'leeches' found in our lakes are parasites feeding on the body fluids of fish.
Those people who operate these servers… are parasites 'leeching off' the creativity of others.
The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic 'leeches' that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.
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