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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- -phage
[feʤ]
[feɪʤ]
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[构词成分]表示“吃”;“食”;“蚀”;“毁”:bacteriophage
Collins English-English Dictionary
- -phage
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n combining form
indicating something that eats or consumes something specified
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bacteriophage
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n combining form
[Etymology]
from Greek -phagos; see phago-
Examples
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Phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria.
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噬菌体利用细菌的生存机制和能量来繁殖更多噬菌体,直至被侵入的细菌毁灭,然后转而再去侵害周围的细菌。
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When a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny.
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当抗菌素感染细菌时,它可以消灭宿主,或者以溶原状态结合到宿主基因中。
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