单词bedbug
n.: 臭虫；床虱
网络: 壁虱；床蝨；床虫
臭虫；床虱:
a small flat insect that lives especially in beds, where it bites people and sucks their blood
床虱
臭虫
复数：bedbugs
As the forces prepared to march, a missive from a general in the bedbug army arrived via termite courier at the castle gates.
就在队伍准备开拔之际，一只白蚁信使突然出现在城堡的门口，它带来了臭虫军队的一位将军发来的书信。
A study of bedbug genetics presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Philadelphia now suggests why.
一项在美国热带医学和卫生学会费城会议上发表的有关床虱的遗传学研究给出了其中的原因。
Massachusetts, Bedbug, 1998 "In nightmarish proportions, a common bedbug appears poised for a blood meal, compliments of a human host. "
一只有着噩梦般形状的普通臭虫正准备开始一顿鲜血大餐，向人类主人表示致意。
The city of New York alone spends as much as US$40 million a year in bedbug control.
仅纽约市一地，每年用于控制床虱虫害的费用就达到四千万美元。
The exterminators are on the front lines of the bedbug battles, and they have seen the casualties: romance.
专业灭虫员奋战在与床虱斗争的第一线，他们目睹了这一“战斗”的牺牲品：爱情。
"We find that bedbug infestations basically start from a very small number of individuals, " says Schal.
沙尔表示，“我们发现这些虫害通常都是由很少的几只床虱开始的。”
He keeps smiling all the time, smiling like a rosy little bedbug that has had its fill.
他自始至终都在笑，活像一只红润的、吸饱了血的小臭虫。
Now, bedbug-related lawsuits can lead to thousands of dollars in punitive damages for mental anguish, embarrassment or humiliation.
臭虫给人们带来精神痛苦、尴尬和羞辱，其相关的法律诉讼已经导致成千上万的惩罚性赔偿损失。
The suburbs are probably the fastest-growing population of bedbug problems today, more than even the cities.
如今在郊区饱受臭虫之害的人口增长最快，甚至多于城市。
The worst problems with bedbug infestations are not physical, but psychological.
臭虫带来的最大的问题不是身体上的，而是心理上的。