leeches

英 [ˈliːtʃɪz]

美 [ˈlitʃɪz]

n.  水蛭; 蚂蟥; 依赖他人钱财者; 攫取他人收益者; 寄生虫
leech的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 水蛭；蚂蟥
  Aleechis a small animal which looks like a worm and lives in water. Leeches feed by attaching themselves to other animals and sucking their blood.
• N-COUNT 吸血鬼；寄生虫
  If you describe someone as aleech, you disapprove of them because they deliberately depend on other people, often making money out of them.
  1. They're just a bunch of leeches cadging off others!
     他们只不过是一帮伸手向人要这要那的寄生虫！

双语例句

• Antibiotics replace leeches, carriages become more expensive, computers become more powerful, and the service from a call-centre deteriorates.
  抗生素取代了蚂蟥，马车价格变得更贵，计算机变得更强大，而呼叫中心的服务却恶化了。
• The kids clung to any passing person like leeches, demanding attention.
  孩子们像水蛭一样紧紧盯住每一个过往的人以受到注意。
• Somewhere famed for the size and quantity of its tiger leeches.
  那里以吸血虫的体积和数量著称。
• Leeches and mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.
  水蛭和蚊子都是吸血动物。
• Don't be one of the leeches, buy me a beer.
  别当伸手党，给我买杯啤酒吧。
• That is why so many priests and monks and leeches have died.
  这就是为什么很多神父、修道士、医生都死了。
• Broussais was the first physician to use leeches as a cure-all.
  布鲁赛是第一个把水蛭当成万灵药的医生。
• Sort of depends on where the leech leeches.
  得看水蛭叮哪了。
• Or, perhaps, try bleeding him with leeches.
  或者对他试试水蛭吸血法。
• The usurers are leeches; they have drained us dry.
  高利贷者是吸血鬼，他们吸干了我们的血汗。