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Definition of bug in English: bugnounPlural bugs bʌɡbəɡ 1informal A harmful microorganism, typically a bacterium. 〈非正式〉有害的微生物（尤指病菌） their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs Example sentencesExamples - The saline solution means that any harmful bugs, viruses or bacteria cannot survive, so it is completely hygienic.
- The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia.
- Chlorine is added during water treatment to kill bacteria, although some bugs such as cryptosporidium are extremely resistant to it.
- Some cases of gastritis are caused by an infection with the same bug that causes peptic ulcers.
- It protected the patient against any harmful bugs and was absolutely necessary to carry out orthopaedic surgery.
- There's an estimated 90 trillion bugs and microscopic bacteria that make YOU their home.
- A bug, a bacterium called Propionobacterium acnes, that lives normally on the skin, can thrive within the blocked pore.
- Although microbiologists have been aware of the bugs' existence, experts are now saying the bacteria have almost certainly spread to every hospital in Scotland.
- An angry mother has hit out at the state of Central Park Swimming Pool after the council closed it following the discovery of the killer lung bug legionella.
- There were all sort of staph bugs in there tromping on the heart valves.
- These drugs fight the bugs by piercing the microbes and attacking their means of reproduction.
- In extreme cases, some of the bugs, bacteria and viruses in the water - like E-Coli - can cause severe vomiting, fevers and even death.
- You have scrubbed, sprayed and wiped the kitchen and the bathroom and the shiny work surfaces look spotless, free from dirt, bugs and bacteria.
- Well, the immune system really is a surveillance mechanism for all sorts of bugs, viruses, bacteria etc.
- The good things that can be said for it are that it kept well and it was free from harmful bugs, something that could not often be said of the local water supply.
- You also need a microscope to see the malarial bugs in the blood and in the mosquito, so this really slowed things down.
- A team from Manchester University has discovered that a blend of essential oils usually used in aromatherapy could eradicate the MRSA bug and other deadly bacteria.
- This new test, though, looks specifically for DNA from the human papilloma virus, the bug linked to cervical cancer.
- He said the bug, mutated bacteria found in the gut, was identified by microbiologists several years ago and was widespread throughout the world.
- The bugs, bacteria and viruses contained in the raw sewage that is still pumped into seas around Scotland not only make us ill, in extreme cases they can kill.
- 1.1 An illness caused by a microorganism.
因病菌引起的疾病 he'd just recovered from a flu bug 他的流感刚好。 Example sentencesExamples - Chris died within a day of contracting the deadly brain bug meningococcal meningitis in January.
- As kids go back to school, they will inevitably catch some of the cold and flu bugs that are going around.
- Noroviruses are highly contagious gastrointestinal bugs spread through food, water, and close contact with infected people.
- Told that the city just doesn't have the resources the health-care workers need to combat the spreading bug, the microbiologist finally snaps.
- Stomach bugs and other illnesses are also a risk to people risk swimming in waterways.
- Overtraining depletes the bodily reserves, so when a flu bug or other illness starts making the rounds, the body is not ready to fight it off.
- Eating chocolate may help to strengthen your immune system, making your body more resistant to cold and flu bugs.
- Sickness and diarrhoea bugs have swept through several wards at Burnley General Hospital - prompting bosses to call for unwell visitors to stay away.
- Every day we are exposed to disease, to cold and flu bugs, to viruses of one sort or another.
- More cases of the killer bug are recorded in winter with children aged under five and between 15 and 17 at particular risk.
- Bill Edmunds noticed that his young son seemed always to get a tummy bug right after his teeth had been painted with fluoride.
- The flu bug is commonly believed to be a mere pest that can cause fever, nausea, and aches and pains - although it has had periods of pandemic proportions.
- Friends and extended family, though they may provide much support, can easily spread a cold or flu bug or other infections.
- A school remained closed today after 150 pupils were struck down by a sickness bug.
- In fact, the Spanish flu bug was likely to have been around since 1900.
- But on Tuesday night, a third of the guests were complaining of a stomach bug and sickness.
- The main difference between SARS and most other flu bugs seems to be the relative mildness of SARS.
- One shot may be all your family needs to ward off the flu bug.
- They say it's a virus and possibly one of those 24-hour flu bugs.
- A flagship London heart hospital was forced to close for two weeks after 45 staff and patients became ill with a diarrhoea bug.
Synonyms illness, ailment, infection, disease, disorder, sickness, affliction, malady, complaint, upset, condition, infirmity, indisposition, malaise bacterium, germ, virus, bacillus, microorganism, microbe British informal lurgy - 1.2with modifier An enthusiastic interest in something.
〈喻，非正式〉着迷，热衷 they caught the sailing bug 他们对帆船运动非常着迷。 Example sentencesExamples - Later, the recording bug bit me and took me away from the command line and into studios.
- Bitten by the recording bug, Kate has just completed her debut album, which took two years to record.
- The rugby league bug bit Adrian when he was six - his elder brothers took him to The Willows and Mary is convinced Adrian would have signed for Salford ahead of Leeds.
- He went to Belvedere College after that but by that stage, the jumping bug had well and truly bitten and he was commuting daily to get his fix.
- The writing bug bit early in life. We all had chores to do at home, but I discovered that my sisters would do my jobs in return for a story of their own.
- Yes, the spring cleaning bug has bitten and God help anyone getting in my way.
- One could fairly say, I think, that once a boater has settled into our marina, it's only a matter of time before the live-aboard bug bites.
- And now even Pidí himself has caught the ice hockey bug.
- When the gardening bug bites you, it usually happens around this time of year - and there will never be a better time than now to start.
- Late in life the junk store/flea market bug bit Papa hard.
- And after a trip to South Korea in 1999 Nadim got the bug to make surveillance his career.
- When the gardening bug bit, I had no place to grow but in front.
- Jenna caught the Beanie bear bug young and now has about 60 of the bears in her collection.
Synonyms obsession, enthusiasm, craze, fad, mania, rage, passion, fixation hobby, interest, pastime informal thing
2North American A small insect. 小虫 a thick green scum which crawls with bugs, centipedes, and worse Example sentencesExamples - Clean your windshield of bugs with a single-edge razor blade; buy them 100 to a box.
- Tiny bugs crawled along the bark of ancient-looking trees.
- Birds, bees, butterflies, bugs, bats, native plants and night-scented flowers have all figured in my postbag in recent weeks.
- They counted gastropods, spiders, beetles and bugs, butterflies, lacewings and bees.
- In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs.
- A large lantern insect, the mealy fly is a sucking bug.
- I observed small creatures: ants, bugs, moths, worms, all working their ways, digging in and out of the soil.
- Once the weather turns muggy it's a good idea to follow some of these suggestions in order to keep the bugs at bay.
- Aphids - these small bugs are green in the East, pink in the West, and can suck the life out of rosebuds and tender stems.
- Frogs eat a number of different garden pests including slugs, ants and other bugs.
- ‘We were knee-deep in mud and mangroves being bitten by fire ants, leeches and bugs,’ he recalls.
- The chickens also have reduced the fire ant population by eating the bugs and seeds the ants would have sustained themselves on.
- Since their introduction, the beneficial wasps have helped control plant bug populations throughout the Northeast.
- Car-boot sales and second-hand furniture is another way bugs get into homes - bedbugs and fleas are prime beneficiaries of the trend, says Sheard.
- Helena is fascinated by ants and bugs; Caroline by the stars in the heavens.
- On another newly renovated floor in the east wing, millions of moths, plant bugs, and spiders rest safely in large, new steel cabinets.
- In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
- I asked the children to imagine themselves a small bug, like an ant, climbing up and down in an unknown landscape, and to draw their trails.
- Refrain from killing knowingly even the trifling insects like a louse, a bug or a mosquito.
- With their little antennae they are one of the creepiest bugs ever.
Synonyms insect, flea, mite, midge informal creepy-crawly, beastie British informal minibeast 3Entomology
An insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking. 〔昆〕半翅目昆虫 Order Hemiptera: see Hemiptera Example sentencesExamples - Phytoseiid mites and heteropteran bugs are frequently part of the enemy complex of herbivorous arthropods in agroecosystems.
- The insect families that scientists lump together as aphids belong to the huge order of true bugs, which typically deploy sucking mouthparts much like built-in soda straws.
- Worldwide, stilt bugs are a relatively small group of unusual hemipterans, or true bugs, in the family Berytidae.
- Asynchronous flight muscle occurs in several of the more speciose insect orders, including beetles, true bugs, wasps and bees, and dipteran flies.
- The Permian saw the appearance of stoneflies, true bugs, beetles, and caddisflies, among other groups.
4A concealed miniature microphone, used for secret eavesdropping or recording. they cleaned out the bugs and wiretaps Example sentencesExamples - However, at this week's hearing Detective Scott told the court that no conversations were recorded by the bug before its discovery.
- And it was then that agent had to install a bug with microphones inside the mayor's office.
- While checking your smoke detector for CIA planted bugs, you might want to also check the batteries so you don't burn to death in case of a fire.
- Under pressure from the Feds, Mark helped the FBI place a pea-sized bug in a home in a Boston suburb.
- Sir Alex Ferguson's match tactics and team talk were then taped by the mole tuning in to the bug's frequency and listening in on United's secrets.
- He only had the director's word for it that the room was clean of bugs.
- Doesn't the President himself like the idea of naughty surveillance, wiretaps, and bugs?
- Nicky counted four phones in the house, after planting the bugs, he planted three microphones as well.
- The courtroom was periodically swept for bugs.
- That, according to sources, is a strong indication that it was the FBI's bug and they were the ones that put it there in the first place.
- New developments in the bizarre case of an FBI bug found in the office of the mayor of Philadelphia, John Street.
- Other figures, including LBJ and Martin Luther King are observed vicariously through wire taps or electronic bugs.
- I used to make wireless cameras and telephone bugs and wire tap equipment just to test it out and try new theories on the use and deployment of such equipment.
Synonyms listening device, hidden microphone, receiver, transmitter, wire, wiretap, phone tap, tap informal bugging device 5An error in a computer program or system. 计算机程序（或系统）中的错误 a custom program we used developed a bug Example sentencesExamples - I'd find bugs and the program manager would tell me to close the report without addressing the issue.
- The former does it to update its rules, the latter to install new bugs on your system faster and more easily.
- What would happen to accountability if an attacker would find a bug in a program and use it in order to gain access to medical records?
- Without knowing these things, you probably have bugs running on your system, and never know it!
- Sometimes bugs can come and go, or networked programs may encounter bugs only when talking to specific servers or clients.
- Worse, it is theoretically impossible to determine whether computer systems are free from programming bugs or nefarious code.
- No matter how reliable the disk, bad blocks happen - errors in cache, firmware, hardware and bugs are all causes.
- The gang plants software bugs in computers that allow it to steal passwords, and it rents out huge networks of computers to others for sending out viruses and spam.
- Your particular problem is (in all likelihood) related to a bug in the program.
- Well, applications are prone to all types of problems, bugs, and errors.
- But other bugs in large computer systems have led to failed space missions, airplane crashes and the death of hospital patients.
- His teammates all agree that most of the teamwork happens in sharing the computer terminal and helping each other work bugs out of their programs.
- The main causes are bugs and implementation errors in particular virtual machines.
- Or perhaps you don't want to load web/email bugs which spammers tend to use in their mailings.
- Rock Solid - Users do not need to worry about spyware, bugs, or computer crashes.
- Most likely this is a software bug in Internet Explorer - I can honestly say that I do not recall ever experiencing this problem.
- He installed a firewall to protect against hackers, a virus protection program to stop online bugs.
- The game also plays host to a wide array of gameplay bugs and glitches.
- Millions of records will appear on public web pages ‘through a bug in the system which has since been resolved’.
- In 1999, a software bug knocked out a nationwide paging system for a day.
Synonyms fault, error, defect, flaw, imperfection, failing, breakdown virus informal glitch, gremlin, snarl-up
verbbugs, bugging, bugged bʌɡbəɡ [with object]1Conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to eavesdrop on or record someone's conversations secretly. 在（房间或电话里）装窃听器 the telephones in the presidential palace were bugged 总统府的电话被人装了窃听器。 Example sentencesExamples - They enlisted the help of a wire-tapper to bug the star's telephone and bedroom.
- They knew the rooms were bugged, so they'd come to the car and they'd take drives in the car and discuss their negotiating stances.
- Do we grant domestic security agents the right to bug phones, buildings and the like?
- According to media reports, New Zealand intelligence services obtained concrete evidence that they were Mossad agents by bugging their phones.
- When another son raised suspicions, the police bugged Heather's telephone.
- Each capability seems innocuous, but a hidden cellphone with both features can silently and automatically answer calls, establishing a radio link for bugging a room.
- In one case permission was granted to bug the mobile phone of a ‘known criminal’.
- During the Second World War, British intelligence secretly bugged the cells occupied by some of the most senior German army, navy and air force commanders who had been captured by the Allies.
- At first, I thought that a co-worker was bugging my telephone and my office.
- MI5 telephone bugging operations alone monitor dozens of sensitive calls each day.
- The documents reveal that during this time he bugged the phone of a county councillor.
- During EBA stoppages in Brisbane earlier this year, it was accused of bugging the telephones of ETU officials.
- The telephone was bugged, and most of the rooms had mini microphones hidden under furniture and behind pictures.
- His telephones were bugged and, sources say, warrants were obtained to insert listening devices in his home.
- During the second world war when she befriended the journalist and historian Joseph Lash, US counter-intelligence agents bugged a room in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where they met.
- Convinced that he has delivered evidence of his employer's wife's infidelity, Harry tries to intervene by bugging the hotel room where he fears that she will be murdered.
- She told the court that after the affair had finished she had become suspicious that her husband was bugging her telephone calls.
- He also alleged that Angolan authorities were bugging his phone.
- During the playoffs in '82, Michaels claimed Raiders owner Al Davis had bugged the locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
- The court heard that undercover officers had bugged his phone as they investigated a number of allegations which did not lead to criminal charges.
- 1.1 Record or eavesdrop on (a conversation) using a concealed microphone.
窃听（谈话） she fears that her conversations were bugged Example sentencesExamples - Fair enough security and all that but they, whoever they were, were just as likely to bug the office as to bug their phone calls.
- A transcript of one bugged conversation played to the court revealed how the officer led the young man on.
- And there, suspecting that their conversation might be bugged, Green insisted upon their going out into the garden, where they sat drinking hot coffee in the chill of the night.
- He is suspected of having reported the bugged conversations to his superiors on a regular basis.
- Mr Pinheiro said last month after the generals humiliated him by bugging his privileged conversations that reconciliation talks in Burma are going nowhere.
- According to one bugged conversation, the new recruits were mostly north Africans but also included middle-class Europeans.
- The security services also admit bugging a conversation between other defendants and lawyers at Belmarsh.
- Unlike the old ones, the new groups do not gather in London's mosques on a Friday afternoon and attack the West for its policies while their speeches and conversation are bugged.
- Short herself suspected her own conversations with him were bugged by spies, even while she was conducting them.
- It concerned the bugging of former National Security Service chief's conversations with politicians, magistrates and journalists.
- He also said the allegations of bugging of conversations between solicitors and clients at Letterkenny Garda Station could be examined by the tribunal.
- Whitehall is also said to be considering laws to allow transcripts of phone conversations bugged by MI5 to be used as evidence in court.
- Again, the conversation was bugged; it gives a chilling insight into the mind of a hardened militant.
- It also led to the discovery of over 270 other tapes he was keeping, revealing that the spy agent illicitly bugged the conversations of nearly all the top figures of society.
Synonyms record, tap, listen in on, eavesdrop on, spy on, overhear wiretap, tap, monitor, phone-tap informal snoop on
2informal Annoy or bother (someone) 〈非正式〉使困扰，打扰 a persistent reporter was bugging me 有个不胜其烦的记者总是跟着我。 Example sentencesExamples - But that's not what really bugs me about this whole thing.
- ‘Go back to your own class and stop bugging me,’ I say, annoyed.
- Little things that don't bug other people severely irritate me.
- No one bugged me then, and I didn't want to bug these people, either.
- If you're bugged by loud and persistent noise at work, like a bone-shaking assembly line, you can campaign for a better working environment, suggests Professor Cooper.
- The guy's evident discomfort was starting to bug him.
- He'll have a partner for the kiddie rides and will be less likely to bug your friends.
- I have a couple of guys who do this, and it bugs me.
- What bugs me is that we weren't told it was a gamble.
- What bugs me the most is that here we are in a country which boasts an abundance of the finest produce known to man, yet we stubbornly insist on eating food which is as far removed from its natural state as possible.
- I know neither of them would hurt me, but it bugs me.
- Well, my problem is that he is really starting to bug me and he does these things that really annoy me.
- Okay, here is what really bugs me about this new show.
- Admit that something about your appearance bugs you, and ask someone you trust for advice on how to turn it into an asset.
- And don't worry about bugging me, it's nice to know that some people really enjoy what I write.
- Being in different high schools was OK, because we could at least see each other on weekends, but living in different countries bugs me a lot.
- It really bugs me that I can't remember the titles.
- Stay calm, state exactly what he's doing to annoy you and say clearly that it's bugging you.
- Tell her how much trouble she can get into and if she keeps bugging you or gets disappointed, then talk to an adult you trust.
- Even if that sort of thing bugs you, though, I'd recommend pushing past it, because the meat of the book is well worth reading.
Synonyms annoy, irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
Phrasal Verbs I assumed you'd come to tell me to bug off Example sentencesExamples - She politely told him to bug off and returned to the breakfast table to finish the comics.
- It's not like they'll think less of you if you tell them to bug off.
- She takes from me and reads it: Thoughts can be private, too, so bug off.
- Of course, this was Michael I was dealing with, and there was no way I was going to persuade him to bug off.
- Why couldn't I just have told Van to bug off and that I'm not interested in getting to know him?
- ‘Oh, bug off, Willis,’ said Jacob, coming to the rescue from behind the tills.
- Just go tell this Royal Messenger to bug off like you did the last one.
- I wanted to resolve things with Carter… but I wanted to tell him to bug off at the same time.
- ‘When a husband and child are Irish and living in Ireland and the mother and wife are being told to bug off to Kiev to get a visa, I think that's a bit rich,’ he added.
- I told him to bug off and he said he didn't realize anyone lived here.
- Well, when he did greet me on the tenth of April, I don't know, but somehow the other voice was telling my cynical side to bug off.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight
if you see enemy troops, bug out 如发现敌军，你们就迅速撤退。 Example sentencesExamples - But I simply do not see any option whatever for bugging out, hiving off and starting something else.
- Once there, he claimed purple hearts for every scratch, and bugged out as quickly as humanly possible.
- He bugged out for an entire year of his duty - desertion in wartime, a capital offense, if you're not rich and well-connected.
- It was only motherly intervention that convinced her to bug out.
- Clearly, there's a whole lot going on inside the museum, but perhaps it's best that some doors stay closed: watching some of the action might just cause people to bug out.
- But bugging out before next year's election could leave the administration facing even tougher decisions a little further down the road.
Synonyms abscond, make off, run off, run away, flee, bolt, take off, take flight, disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away, beat a hasty retreat, escape, make a run for it, make one's getaway, leave, depart, make oneself scarce he did a double take and his eyes bugged out Example sentencesExamples - With her jaw dropped and eyes bugging out, it wasn't her most attractive moment.
- I thought your eyes were going to bug out of your head!
- When I woke up this morning I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, and my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out.
- As my pager rarely goes off when I'm not at work, I was a little slow in recognizing the sound and digging the dreaded noise box out of my bag, but when I did, my eyes bugged out.
- I am also presently shopping around at the Buy and Sell webpage for a phone, and my eyes are bugging out at the prices.
- Sam knew her eyes bugged out when she heard this so she tried her best to school her features before turning to look at Jake.
- I can't help my eyes from bugging out at the shock of hearing that sentence.
- My eyes pretty much bugged out when I saw the claim that square A is the same shade of grey as square B.
- He came out, his eyes bugging out of his head, let out of the truck.
- I have printed it out so I can read it without my eyes bugging out.
- Elizabeth's eyes nearly bugged out when she saw it.
- All the flashing lights still made my eyes bug out of their sockets and the bright letters talking about an actress or famous actor in a play still made me wish I were on Broadway.
- My eyes nearly bugged out of my head when I saw Jessica sitting where I had been.
- His face was red, his eyes bugging out, his entire being seemingly contorted in fury.
- ‘How pleasant,’ I finally said, hoping that he couldn't see my eyes bugging out as I masqueraded dropping something on the ground, and reaching down to retrieve it.
- Nath sucked down some flaming blue cocktail and his eyes bugged out.
- Kenny's smile fell off his face and he stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes bugged out in surprise.
- There's just a feeling about those shots, with her eyes sort of bugging out, that you look at that and say: ‘Is she going to run or do something?’
- We are also talking with a man whose eyes bug out when he talks and a couple of other nondescript people at our table, and the rest of the group are at the table opposite, a bunch of 40 something men talking animatedly over their pints.
OriginEarly 17th century: of unknown origin. Current verb senses date from the early 20th century. Rhymeschug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug Definition of bug in US English: bugnounbəɡbəɡ 1North American A small insect. 小虫 Example sentencesExamples - Helena is fascinated by ants and bugs; Caroline by the stars in the heavens.
- Once the weather turns muggy it's a good idea to follow some of these suggestions in order to keep the bugs at bay.
- A large lantern insect, the mealy fly is a sucking bug.
- Clean your windshield of bugs with a single-edge razor blade; buy them 100 to a box.
- With their little antennae they are one of the creepiest bugs ever.
- In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
- I asked the children to imagine themselves a small bug, like an ant, climbing up and down in an unknown landscape, and to draw their trails.
- Birds, bees, butterflies, bugs, bats, native plants and night-scented flowers have all figured in my postbag in recent weeks.
- In the middle of the reproductive period most bugs carry eggs.
- I observed small creatures: ants, bugs, moths, worms, all working their ways, digging in and out of the soil.
- Tiny bugs crawled along the bark of ancient-looking trees.
- They counted gastropods, spiders, beetles and bugs, butterflies, lacewings and bees.
- The chickens also have reduced the fire ant population by eating the bugs and seeds the ants would have sustained themselves on.
- On another newly renovated floor in the east wing, millions of moths, plant bugs, and spiders rest safely in large, new steel cabinets.
- Frogs eat a number of different garden pests including slugs, ants and other bugs.
- Car-boot sales and second-hand furniture is another way bugs get into homes - bedbugs and fleas are prime beneficiaries of the trend, says Sheard.
- ‘We were knee-deep in mud and mangroves being bitten by fire ants, leeches and bugs,’ he recalls.
- Refrain from killing knowingly even the trifling insects like a louse, a bug or a mosquito.
- Aphids - these small bugs are green in the East, pink in the West, and can suck the life out of rosebuds and tender stems.
- Since their introduction, the beneficial wasps have helped control plant bug populations throughout the Northeast.
Synonyms insect, flea, mite, midge - 1.1informal A harmful microorganism, as a bacterium or virus.
〈非正式〉有害的微生物（尤指病菌） Example sentencesExamples - The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia.
- The bugs, bacteria and viruses contained in the raw sewage that is still pumped into seas around Scotland not only make us ill, in extreme cases they can kill.
- The saline solution means that any harmful bugs, viruses or bacteria cannot survive, so it is completely hygienic.
- There's an estimated 90 trillion bugs and microscopic bacteria that make YOU their home.
- A team from Manchester University has discovered that a blend of essential oils usually used in aromatherapy could eradicate the MRSA bug and other deadly bacteria.
- This new test, though, looks specifically for DNA from the human papilloma virus, the bug linked to cervical cancer.
- It protected the patient against any harmful bugs and was absolutely necessary to carry out orthopaedic surgery.
- A bug, a bacterium called Propionobacterium acnes, that lives normally on the skin, can thrive within the blocked pore.
- In extreme cases, some of the bugs, bacteria and viruses in the water - like E-Coli - can cause severe vomiting, fevers and even death.
- These drugs fight the bugs by piercing the microbes and attacking their means of reproduction.
- Well, the immune system really is a surveillance mechanism for all sorts of bugs, viruses, bacteria etc.
- There were all sort of staph bugs in there tromping on the heart valves.
- Chlorine is added during water treatment to kill bacteria, although some bugs such as cryptosporidium are extremely resistant to it.
- Although microbiologists have been aware of the bugs' existence, experts are now saying the bacteria have almost certainly spread to every hospital in Scotland.
- An angry mother has hit out at the state of Central Park Swimming Pool after the council closed it following the discovery of the killer lung bug legionella.
- He said the bug, mutated bacteria found in the gut, was identified by microbiologists several years ago and was widespread throughout the world.
- Some cases of gastritis are caused by an infection with the same bug that causes peptic ulcers.
- The good things that can be said for it are that it kept well and it was free from harmful bugs, something that could not often be said of the local water supply.
- You have scrubbed, sprayed and wiped the kitchen and the bathroom and the shiny work surfaces look spotless, free from dirt, bugs and bacteria.
- You also need a microscope to see the malarial bugs in the blood and in the mosquito, so this really slowed things down.
- 1.2 An illness caused by a harmful microorganism such as a bacterium or virus.
Example sentencesExamples - Every day we are exposed to disease, to cold and flu bugs, to viruses of one sort or another.
- They say it's a virus and possibly one of those 24-hour flu bugs.
- Noroviruses are highly contagious gastrointestinal bugs spread through food, water, and close contact with infected people.
- Sickness and diarrhoea bugs have swept through several wards at Burnley General Hospital - prompting bosses to call for unwell visitors to stay away.
- The flu bug is commonly believed to be a mere pest that can cause fever, nausea, and aches and pains - although it has had periods of pandemic proportions.
- But on Tuesday night, a third of the guests were complaining of a stomach bug and sickness.
- One shot may be all your family needs to ward off the flu bug.
- As kids go back to school, they will inevitably catch some of the cold and flu bugs that are going around.
- Eating chocolate may help to strengthen your immune system, making your body more resistant to cold and flu bugs.
- Bill Edmunds noticed that his young son seemed always to get a tummy bug right after his teeth had been painted with fluoride.
- A school remained closed today after 150 pupils were struck down by a sickness bug.
- In fact, the Spanish flu bug was likely to have been around since 1900.
- Friends and extended family, though they may provide much support, can easily spread a cold or flu bug or other infections.
- A flagship London heart hospital was forced to close for two weeks after 45 staff and patients became ill with a diarrhoea bug.
- Stomach bugs and other illnesses are also a risk to people risk swimming in waterways.
- More cases of the killer bug are recorded in winter with children aged under five and between 15 and 17 at particular risk.
- Told that the city just doesn't have the resources the health-care workers need to combat the spreading bug, the microbiologist finally snaps.
- The main difference between SARS and most other flu bugs seems to be the relative mildness of SARS.
- Overtraining depletes the bodily reserves, so when a flu bug or other illness starts making the rounds, the body is not ready to fight it off.
- Chris died within a day of contracting the deadly brain bug meningococcal meningitis in January.
Synonyms illness, ailment, infection, disease, disorder, sickness, affliction, malady, complaint, upset, condition, infirmity, indisposition, malaise - 1.3informal with modifier An enthusiastic, almost obsessive, interest in something.
〈喻，非正式〉着迷，热衷 they caught the sailing bug 他们对帆船运动非常着迷。 Joe was bitten by the showbiz bug 乔对娱乐性行业非常热心。 Example sentencesExamples - He went to Belvedere College after that but by that stage, the jumping bug had well and truly bitten and he was commuting daily to get his fix.
- And after a trip to South Korea in 1999 Nadim got the bug to make surveillance his career.
- Later, the recording bug bit me and took me away from the command line and into studios.
- The rugby league bug bit Adrian when he was six - his elder brothers took him to The Willows and Mary is convinced Adrian would have signed for Salford ahead of Leeds.
- Jenna caught the Beanie bear bug young and now has about 60 of the bears in her collection.
- When the gardening bug bites you, it usually happens around this time of year - and there will never be a better time than now to start.
- Bitten by the recording bug, Kate has just completed her debut album, which took two years to record.
- Yes, the spring cleaning bug has bitten and God help anyone getting in my way.
- The writing bug bit early in life. We all had chores to do at home, but I discovered that my sisters would do my jobs in return for a story of their own.
- When the gardening bug bit, I had no place to grow but in front.
- Late in life the junk store/flea market bug bit Papa hard.
- And now even Pidí himself has caught the ice hockey bug.
- One could fairly say, I think, that once a boater has settled into our marina, it's only a matter of time before the live-aboard bug bites.
Synonyms obsession, enthusiasm, craze, fad, mania, rage, passion, fixation
2Entomology
An insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking. 〔昆〕半翅目昆虫 Order Hemiptera: see Hemiptera Example sentencesExamples - The Permian saw the appearance of stoneflies, true bugs, beetles, and caddisflies, among other groups.
- The insect families that scientists lump together as aphids belong to the huge order of true bugs, which typically deploy sucking mouthparts much like built-in soda straws.
- Asynchronous flight muscle occurs in several of the more speciose insect orders, including beetles, true bugs, wasps and bees, and dipteran flies.
- Phytoseiid mites and heteropteran bugs are frequently part of the enemy complex of herbivorous arthropods in agroecosystems.
- Worldwide, stilt bugs are a relatively small group of unusual hemipterans, or true bugs, in the family Berytidae.
3A miniature microphone, typically concealed in a room or telephone, used for surveillance. 窃听器 Example sentencesExamples - That, according to sources, is a strong indication that it was the FBI's bug and they were the ones that put it there in the first place.
- However, at this week's hearing Detective Scott told the court that no conversations were recorded by the bug before its discovery.
- I used to make wireless cameras and telephone bugs and wire tap equipment just to test it out and try new theories on the use and deployment of such equipment.
- Nicky counted four phones in the house, after planting the bugs, he planted three microphones as well.
- He only had the director's word for it that the room was clean of bugs.
- Other figures, including LBJ and Martin Luther King are observed vicariously through wire taps or electronic bugs.
- While checking your smoke detector for CIA planted bugs, you might want to also check the batteries so you don't burn to death in case of a fire.
- The courtroom was periodically swept for bugs.
- New developments in the bizarre case of an FBI bug found in the office of the mayor of Philadelphia, John Street.
- Doesn't the President himself like the idea of naughty surveillance, wiretaps, and bugs?
- Sir Alex Ferguson's match tactics and team talk were then taped by the mole tuning in to the bug's frequency and listening in on United's secrets.
- Under pressure from the Feds, Mark helped the FBI place a pea-sized bug in a home in a Boston suburb.
- And it was then that agent had to install a bug with microphones inside the mayor's office.
Synonyms listening device, hidden microphone, receiver, transmitter, wire, wiretap, phone tap, tap 4An error in a computer program or system. 计算机程序（或系统）中的错误 Example sentencesExamples - The former does it to update its rules, the latter to install new bugs on your system faster and more easily.
- The gang plants software bugs in computers that allow it to steal passwords, and it rents out huge networks of computers to others for sending out viruses and spam.
- The main causes are bugs and implementation errors in particular virtual machines.
- He installed a firewall to protect against hackers, a virus protection program to stop online bugs.
- Rock Solid - Users do not need to worry about spyware, bugs, or computer crashes.
- Without knowing these things, you probably have bugs running on your system, and never know it!
- The game also plays host to a wide array of gameplay bugs and glitches.
- Your particular problem is (in all likelihood) related to a bug in the program.
- Sometimes bugs can come and go, or networked programs may encounter bugs only when talking to specific servers or clients.
- Well, applications are prone to all types of problems, bugs, and errors.
- No matter how reliable the disk, bad blocks happen - errors in cache, firmware, hardware and bugs are all causes.
- Most likely this is a software bug in Internet Explorer - I can honestly say that I do not recall ever experiencing this problem.
- Millions of records will appear on public web pages ‘through a bug in the system which has since been resolved’.
- In 1999, a software bug knocked out a nationwide paging system for a day.
- Or perhaps you don't want to load web/email bugs which spammers tend to use in their mailings.
- I'd find bugs and the program manager would tell me to close the report without addressing the issue.
- His teammates all agree that most of the teamwork happens in sharing the computer terminal and helping each other work bugs out of their programs.
- What would happen to accountability if an attacker would find a bug in a program and use it in order to gain access to medical records?
- But other bugs in large computer systems have led to failed space missions, airplane crashes and the death of hospital patients.
- Worse, it is theoretically impossible to determine whether computer systems are free from programming bugs or nefarious code.
Synonyms fault, error, defect, flaw, imperfection, failing, breakdown
verbbəɡbəɡ [with object]1Conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to monitor or record someone's conversations. 在（房间或电话里）装窃听器 the telephones in the presidential palace were bugged 总统府的电话被人装了窃听器。 Example sentencesExamples - At first, I thought that a co-worker was bugging my telephone and my office.
- Each capability seems innocuous, but a hidden cellphone with both features can silently and automatically answer calls, establishing a radio link for bugging a room.
- She told the court that after the affair had finished she had become suspicious that her husband was bugging her telephone calls.
- They knew the rooms were bugged, so they'd come to the car and they'd take drives in the car and discuss their negotiating stances.
- During EBA stoppages in Brisbane earlier this year, it was accused of bugging the telephones of ETU officials.
- They enlisted the help of a wire-tapper to bug the star's telephone and bedroom.
- The documents reveal that during this time he bugged the phone of a county councillor.
- MI5 telephone bugging operations alone monitor dozens of sensitive calls each day.
- The court heard that undercover officers had bugged his phone as they investigated a number of allegations which did not lead to criminal charges.
- During the second world war when she befriended the journalist and historian Joseph Lash, US counter-intelligence agents bugged a room in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where they met.
- In one case permission was granted to bug the mobile phone of a ‘known criminal’.
- Convinced that he has delivered evidence of his employer's wife's infidelity, Harry tries to intervene by bugging the hotel room where he fears that she will be murdered.
- The telephone was bugged, and most of the rooms had mini microphones hidden under furniture and behind pictures.
- He also alleged that Angolan authorities were bugging his phone.
- His telephones were bugged and, sources say, warrants were obtained to insert listening devices in his home.
- Do we grant domestic security agents the right to bug phones, buildings and the like?
- During the playoffs in '82, Michaels claimed Raiders owner Al Davis had bugged the locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
- When another son raised suspicions, the police bugged Heather's telephone.
- According to media reports, New Zealand intelligence services obtained concrete evidence that they were Mossad agents by bugging their phones.
- During the Second World War, British intelligence secretly bugged the cells occupied by some of the most senior German army, navy and air force commanders who had been captured by the Allies.
- 1.1 Record or monitor (a conversation) by concealing a microphone in a room or telephone.
Example sentencesExamples - Fair enough security and all that but they, whoever they were, were just as likely to bug the office as to bug their phone calls.
- Mr Pinheiro said last month after the generals humiliated him by bugging his privileged conversations that reconciliation talks in Burma are going nowhere.
- And there, suspecting that their conversation might be bugged, Green insisted upon their going out into the garden, where they sat drinking hot coffee in the chill of the night.
- He is suspected of having reported the bugged conversations to his superiors on a regular basis.
- It concerned the bugging of former National Security Service chief's conversations with politicians, magistrates and journalists.
- Again, the conversation was bugged; it gives a chilling insight into the mind of a hardened militant.
- He also said the allegations of bugging of conversations between solicitors and clients at Letterkenny Garda Station could be examined by the tribunal.
- The security services also admit bugging a conversation between other defendants and lawyers at Belmarsh.
- Whitehall is also said to be considering laws to allow transcripts of phone conversations bugged by MI5 to be used as evidence in court.
- A transcript of one bugged conversation played to the court revealed how the officer led the young man on.
- According to one bugged conversation, the new recruits were mostly north Africans but also included middle-class Europeans.
- It also led to the discovery of over 270 other tapes he was keeping, revealing that the spy agent illicitly bugged the conversations of nearly all the top figures of society.
- Short herself suspected her own conversations with him were bugged by spies, even while she was conducting them.
- Unlike the old ones, the new groups do not gather in London's mosques on a Friday afternoon and attack the West for its policies while their speeches and conversation are bugged.
Synonyms record, tap, listen in on, eavesdrop on, spy on, overhear
2informal Annoy or bother (someone) 〈非正式〉使困扰，打扰 a persistent reporter was bugging me 有个不胜其烦的记者总是跟着我。 Example sentencesExamples - Being in different high schools was OK, because we could at least see each other on weekends, but living in different countries bugs me a lot.
- Admit that something about your appearance bugs you, and ask someone you trust for advice on how to turn it into an asset.
- Tell her how much trouble she can get into and if she keeps bugging you or gets disappointed, then talk to an adult you trust.
- Little things that don't bug other people severely irritate me.
- If you're bugged by loud and persistent noise at work, like a bone-shaking assembly line, you can campaign for a better working environment, suggests Professor Cooper.
- Well, my problem is that he is really starting to bug me and he does these things that really annoy me.
- I know neither of them would hurt me, but it bugs me.
- And don't worry about bugging me, it's nice to know that some people really enjoy what I write.
- What bugs me is that we weren't told it was a gamble.
- He'll have a partner for the kiddie rides and will be less likely to bug your friends.
- What bugs me the most is that here we are in a country which boasts an abundance of the finest produce known to man, yet we stubbornly insist on eating food which is as far removed from its natural state as possible.
- I have a couple of guys who do this, and it bugs me.
- Even if that sort of thing bugs you, though, I'd recommend pushing past it, because the meat of the book is well worth reading.
- Stay calm, state exactly what he's doing to annoy you and say clearly that it's bugging you.
- Okay, here is what really bugs me about this new show.
- But that's not what really bugs me about this whole thing.
- ‘Go back to your own class and stop bugging me,’ I say, annoyed.
- It really bugs me that I can't remember the titles.
- No one bugged me then, and I didn't want to bug these people, either.
- The guy's evident discomfort was starting to bug him.
Synonyms annoy, irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
Phrasal VerbsExample sentencesExamples - ‘When a husband and child are Irish and living in Ireland and the mother and wife are being told to bug off to Kiev to get a visa, I think that's a bit rich,’ he added.
- It's not like they'll think less of you if you tell them to bug off.
- She politely told him to bug off and returned to the breakfast table to finish the comics.
- Of course, this was Michael I was dealing with, and there was no way I was going to persuade him to bug off.
- Well, when he did greet me on the tenth of April, I don't know, but somehow the other voice was telling my cynical side to bug off.
- Why couldn't I just have told Van to bug off and that I'm not interested in getting to know him?
- I wanted to resolve things with Carter… but I wanted to tell him to bug off at the same time.
- She takes from me and reads it: Thoughts can be private, too, so bug off.
- ‘Oh, bug off, Willis,’ said Jacob, coming to the rescue from behind the tills.
- Just go tell this Royal Messenger to bug off like you did the last one.
- I told him to bug off and he said he didn't realize anyone lived here.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight
if you see enemy troops, bug out 如发现敌军，你们就迅速撤退。 Example sentencesExamples - It was only motherly intervention that convinced her to bug out.
- Once there, he claimed purple hearts for every scratch, and bugged out as quickly as humanly possible.
- But I simply do not see any option whatever for bugging out, hiving off and starting something else.
- Clearly, there's a whole lot going on inside the museum, but perhaps it's best that some doors stay closed: watching some of the action might just cause people to bug out.
- He bugged out for an entire year of his duty - desertion in wartime, a capital offense, if you're not rich and well-connected.
- But bugging out before next year's election could leave the administration facing even tougher decisions a little further down the road.
Synonyms abscond, make off, run off, run away, flee, bolt, take off, take flight, disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away, beat a hasty retreat, escape, make a run for it, make one's getaway, leave, depart, make oneself scarce he did a double take and his eyes bugged out Example sentencesExamples - Sam knew her eyes bugged out when she heard this so she tried her best to school her features before turning to look at Jake.
- There's just a feeling about those shots, with her eyes sort of bugging out, that you look at that and say: ‘Is she going to run or do something?’
- With her jaw dropped and eyes bugging out, it wasn't her most attractive moment.
- I am also presently shopping around at the Buy and Sell webpage for a phone, and my eyes are bugging out at the prices.
- When I woke up this morning I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, and my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out.
- As my pager rarely goes off when I'm not at work, I was a little slow in recognizing the sound and digging the dreaded noise box out of my bag, but when I did, my eyes bugged out.
- His face was red, his eyes bugging out, his entire being seemingly contorted in fury.
- I thought your eyes were going to bug out of your head!
- All the flashing lights still made my eyes bug out of their sockets and the bright letters talking about an actress or famous actor in a play still made me wish I were on Broadway.
- Nath sucked down some flaming blue cocktail and his eyes bugged out.
- Kenny's smile fell off his face and he stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes bugged out in surprise.
- I can't help my eyes from bugging out at the shock of hearing that sentence.
- We are also talking with a man whose eyes bug out when he talks and a couple of other nondescript people at our table, and the rest of the group are at the table opposite, a bunch of 40 something men talking animatedly over their pints.
- ‘How pleasant,’ I finally said, hoping that he couldn't see my eyes bugging out as I masqueraded dropping something on the ground, and reaching down to retrieve it.
- Elizabeth's eyes nearly bugged out when she saw it.
- My eyes pretty much bugged out when I saw the claim that square A is the same shade of grey as square B.
- My eyes nearly bugged out of my head when I saw Jessica sitting where I had been.
- He came out, his eyes bugging out of his head, let out of the truck.
- I have printed it out so I can read it without my eyes bugging out.
OriginEarly 17th century: of unknown origin. Current verb senses date from the early 20th century. |