wormed

英 [wɜːmd]

美 [wɜːrmd]

v.  蠕动，曲折行进(尤指通过狭窄或拥挤的地方); 给(动物)驱肠虫
worm的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：wormed　过去式：wormed　

柯林斯词典

• 蠕虫
  Awormis a small animal with a long thin body, no bones and no legs.
• (动物或人体内的)寄生虫，肠虫
  If animals or people haveworms, worms are living in their intestines.
• VERB 给(动物)驱寄生虫
  If youworman animal, you give it medicine in order to kill the worms that are living in its intestines.
  1. I worm all my birds in early spring...
     早春的时候我给我所有的鸟打虫。
  2. All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months.
     所有的成年狗至少每半年要例行打一次虫。
• VERB 艰难地移动；蜷缩着身子走
  If youwormyourwaysomewhere, you move there with difficulty, twisting or bending your body or making it narrow.
  1. I had to worm my way out sideways from the bench in a ridiculous, undignified fashion...
     我侧着身子艰难地从长凳上移开，那个样子很可笑，很不雅观。
  2. The kitten wormed its way through the just-open door.
     小猫缩着身子从刚开了一点儿的门中挤过来。
• VERB (通常为欺骗别人或得到好处)逐渐取得(成功或好感)
  If you say that someoneis wormingtheirwayto success, oris wormingtheirwayinto someone else's affection, you disapprove of the way that they are gradually making someone trust them or like them, often in order to deceive them or gain some advantage.
  1. She never misses a chance to worm her way into the public's hearts...
     她从不放过任何博取公众欢心的机会。
  2. Everyone knows people who have wormed their way up on old school connections.
     每个人都认识一些利用老同学关系向上爬的人。
• 可怜虫;软蛋;卑鄙的家伙
  If you call a person aworm, you are insulting them by saying that they have a very weak or unpleasant character and you have no respect for them.
• “蠕虫”病毒
  Awormis a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network.
• PHRASE 极为棘手的问题
  If you say that someone is openinga can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
  1. You've opened up a whole new can of worms here I think. We could have a whole debate on student loans and grants...
     我认为你在此引发了一个极为棘手的全新问题，我们可能会就学生贷款和助学金展开一次大辩论。
  2. Drug abuse is a can of worms nobody wants to open at sporting events.
     滥用药物是体育赛事中无人想要触及的棘手问题。
• PHRASE 蠕虫被踩，也会翻腾；兔子急了也咬人
  If you say thatthe worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  1. Now the worm turns, and his wife Elizabeth chucks him out and takes a lover herself.
     现在他妻子伊丽莎白被逼急了，把他撵了出去，自己找了个情人。

双语例句

• She wormed herself into his favor.
  她千方百计地获取他的宠爱。
• He had wormed a finger, in the darkness, through a buttonhole of Stephen's coat.
  在黑暗之中，他把一个手指头插入斯梯芬的外衣的钮扣眼里。
• He wormed the secret out of her.
  他从她嘴里把秘密套出来了。
• Once again she wormed out of trouble.
  她又一次逐渐摆脱了困境。
• The truth had been wormed out of him by his lawyers.
  他的律师们不断盘问，套出了他的实情。
• I wasn't planning on telling her what happened last night but she wormed it out of me.
  昨晚的事我本打算告诉她的，但硬是被她套了出来。
• But I have problem in geography. We wormed our way through the crowd.
  不过，我学地理有困难。我们困难地挤过人群。
• They wormed their way out through the crack in the wall.
  他们好不容易才从墙上的裂缝处爬了出来。
• He wormed himself into her affections without her ever suspecting he only did it for her money.
  他逐渐地骗取了她的好感，而她却从未怀疑过他这样做只是为了她的钱。
• All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months.
  所有的成年狗至少每半年要例行打一次虫。