leeched

leech¹[li:tʃ]

• n.
  • 【动物】水蛭，蚂蟥；欧洲医蛭[蛭纲(Hirudinea)的水栖或陆栖吸血虫]
  • 吸血器；抽水器
  • 食客，清客；[比喻]寄生虫，吸血鬼；重利盘剥者
  • [古语]医生，医师
• vt.
  • [古语]用水蛭吸…的血(以治病)；治疗；治愈(伤口)
  • 寄食于…的门下；依附并榨取(血汗)：

    to leech someone white

    榨干某人的精力(或血汗、钱财)

    He leeched his father for his fortune.

    他榨取父亲的财富。

• vi.
  • 依附于别人；寄人篱下(常与 on to连用)：

    He was the only person whom she could leech on to.

    他是她惟一可依赖的人。

• 短语:
  • stick to something (或 someone) like a leech
    • 缠住(或钉住)不放
    • 纠缠不休

leech²[li:tʃ]

• n.
  • 【造船】
  • (纵帆的)后缘
  • (横帆的)帆缘

• United Presbyterian Church
• inviolability
• cellarman
• trapse
• anal
• microwave communications
• superfluous
• rococoes
• whorishness
• by way of prevention
• hypaethral
• a trouble shared is a trouble halved
• bog pocket
• whigger
• self-criticisms
• Waffen S.S.
• moralist
• reremice
• bring someone into derision
• Fuehrer
• PEAP
• ethamivan
• Bull, Ole (Bornemann)
• to the (utmost) limit
• majaguas
• tromboner
• in that regard
• stick up for one's principles
• impenetration
• shoofly pies
• obstinacy
• mailing lists
• revetment
• self-taught
• a/one step at a time
• gallate
• caravaning或-vanning
• daze
• hold the field
• pregaphone
• malthouse
• piperines
• of unsound mind
• vaterite
• batched
• pollenized
• jag it in
• humanitarians
• blutwurst
• walkback
• Schopenhauer, Arthur
• beat over the old ground
• petnapper
• enervating
• Christmas card
• banterers
• pluck up one’s courage
• browning automatic rifles
• two cheers
• soft rays
• re-beating
• Budget of the U.S. Government
• working dogs
• garishnesses
• medico-
• chronopharmacology
• palouser
• Nikon
• pinker
• freiras
• Sahelians
• exorcisms
• local service airline
• womanizings
• Texas tower
• ear-piercing
• be a handful
• tautness
• circumventer
• Oxidation pond
• exhortative
• separator page
• prenuptial
• the next man (或 one, person, woman)
• cold torpor
• textualist
• balass
• perilune
• neuroradiology
• helicar
• Maine
• mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
• philippina
• numbers game
• have the needle
• of your own free will
• premaxillary
• kit sb / sth ↔ out / up
• take a load from sb’s mind
• Tethinidae