amoeba: [19] Amoebas got their name (around 1840) from their inherent shapelessness. With their infinitely mobile exterior and their fluid interior, their shape is constantly changing, and so they were christened with the Greek word amoibē, which means literally ‘change’.
amoeba (n.)
1855, from Modern Latin Amoeba, genus name (1841), from Greek amoibe "change," related to ameibein "to change, exchange," from PIE *e-meigw-, extended form of root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move" (see mutable). So called for its constantly changing shape. Related: Amoebaean; amoebic.
雙語例句
1. The amoeba is a very simple organism.
變形蟲是很簡單的生物體.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Amoeba was a distributed operating system.
Amoeba是一個分布式操作系統.
來自互聯網
3. This paper is indroduction to Amoeba system followed by an implementation of RPC communication over WAN.
本文簡要介紹實現廣域網rpc通信的Amoeba系統.
來自互聯網
4. An amoeba forms a cyst when conditions are unfavourable.
當環境不利時,變形蟲產生包囊.
來自辭典例句
5. The amoeba, a denizen of fresh water, is such a case.