bug

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bʌɡ/    美 /bʌɡ/|/bɐɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
    — Several pretty beetles, a superb "bug," and a few nice land-shells were obtained, and I returned in the afternoon well satisfied with my first trial of the promised land.
  2. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest. informal,proscribed
    — Speaking of advertising changes of name, a title by which those lodging-house pests, bugs, are now often known, that of Norfolk Howards, is derived from an advertisement in which one Ephraim Bug avowed his intention of being for the future known as Norfolk Howard.
  3. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.; A motile arthropod, especially a small and terrestrial one.; Any insect. informal,proscribed
    — A: Eew, what is that thing?! Is that a bug?! B: No, it's a spider. And don't worry: she's not gonna hurt you.
  4. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.; A motile arthropod, especially a small and terrestrial one.; Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug. informal,proscribed
    — Bugs, oysters, prawns and crabs […] are plated up on the decks of four side-by-side trawlers bobbing on the calm waters of Trinity Inlet.
  5. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.; A motile arthropod, especially a small and terrestrial one.; A trilobite. informal,proscribed,slang
    — We asked Harris if he had any recommendations about seeing the famous trilobite digs. He said we should just drive out to his claim in the Wheeler Quadrangle, and it was just fine with him if we dug a few bugs.
  6. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.; A motile arthropod, especially a small and terrestrial one.; A lobster. Maine,informal,proscribed
  7. Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.; A motile arthropod, especially a small and terrestrial one.; A bedbug. UK,informal,obsolete,proscribed,specifically
  8. A problem that needs fixing. jargon
    — The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3.
  9. A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
    — He's got the flu bug.
  10. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession. informal
    — I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps.
  11. A keen enthusiast or hobbyist. informal
    — His mother had been a bug on astrology, which was why the moment of his birth had been impressed on him so exactly.
  12. A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
    — We installed a bug in her telephone.
  13. A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
    — He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
  14. A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
    — Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show.
  15. A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
    — You look up the proper speed for the phase of flight, set the reminder bug, and then literally forget the speed. You don't read the airspeed number, you fly to the bug.
  16. A semi-automated telegraph key.
    — At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug, as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.
  17. Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies. obsolete
    — Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
  18. HIV.
    — The arguably most debated bareback practice that came to attract attention early on (and still does) was that of "bug chasing," in which HIV-negative men (bug chasers) actively seek out sex with HIV-positive men (gift givers).
  19. A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
  20. Synonym of oil bug. US,dated,slang
    — Now, only three years later, most of the major oil companies maintain staffs of these men who examine cores, classify the various types of "bugs," or foraminifera, and make charts showing the depths at which each of the hundreds of types is found.
  21. An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance. US,slang
    — The "bugs" are the asterisks next to the apprentice's name. One bug is a five-pound allowance, two bugs equal seven pounds, and three bugs equal ten pounds.
  22. A young apprentice jockey. US,broadly,slang
  23. Synonym of union bug.
  24. A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations. slang
    — Because many illegal slot-machine operators here and abroad do not like to give the slot-machine player even one chance to hit the jackpot or the big bonus, they make use of a "bug." This is a small, flat half-circle of iron about an inch long, which looks something like a bug.
  25. A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating. slang
    — Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.
动词 v.
  1. To annoy. informal,transitive
    — Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
  2. To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others. informal,intransitive
    — I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.
  3. To install an electronic listening device or devices in. transitive
    — We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.
  4. To bulge or protrude. intransitive
    — I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open. There must have been 25 women in the room. I don't think I had ever seen so many lesbians all together in one place before.
  5. To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument. transitive
    — You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]

词形变化

bugs plural bugg alternative,obsolete bugs present,singular,third-person bugging participle,present bugged participle,past bugged past bugg alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a “bedbug”), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), from Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”) which is traced alternatively to:
* a Celtic root found in Scots bogill (“goblin, bugbear”) and obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat, fear”) and Middle Irish bocanách (“supernatural being”).
* Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin, snot”).
* or to a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
For the “insect” meaning the assonance with Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda, from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above, might have played a role. Compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”). More at bud. But ultimately this convergence of meaning doesn't prove a conflation of the two terms; they might have existed in parallel since PIE times with similar meanings, even if unnoticed by literary sources.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.
词源 2
First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a “bedbug”), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), from Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”) which is traced alternatively to:
* a Celtic root found in Scots bogill (“goblin, bugbear”) and obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat, fear”) and Middle Irish bocanách (“supernatural being”).
* Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin, snot”).
* or to a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
For the “insect” meaning the assonance with Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda, from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above, might have played a role. Compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”). More at bud. But ultimately this convergence of meaning doesn't prove a conflation of the two terms; they might have existed in parallel since PIE times with similar meanings, even if unnoticed by literary sources.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.
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