gnat

• n. [昆] 小昆虫；小烦扰
• n. (Gnat)人名；(英)纳特；(俄)格纳特

词源同gnaw, 咬。

gnat (n.)

Old English gnæt "gnat, midge, small flying insect," earlier gneat, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz (cognates: Low German gnatte, German Gnitze); perhaps literally "biting insect" and related to gnaw.

The gnatte is a litil fflye, and hatte culex he soukeþ blood and haþ in his mouþ a pipe, as hit were a pricke. And is a-countid a-mong volatiles and greueþ slepinge men wiþ noyse & wiþ bytinge and wakeþ hem of here reste. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

Gnat-catcher, insectivorous bird of the U.S. woodlands, is from 1823.

1. "Tang" is "Gnat" spelt backwards.

Gnat倒着写出来就是Tang。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

小事拘谨,大事糊涂.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. A novel human GCN 5 - related acetyltransferase, MAK 3 was found by bioinformatics analysis of the GNAT family.

在对乙酰化酶GNAT家族进行研究分析的过程中, 找到一个人GNAT家族 的新成员MAK3.

来自互联网

4. He's always straining at a gnat.

他总是对小事很拘谨.

来自辞典例句

5. You need not sing to me like a gnat to profound that question.

你用不着象蚊子那样哼哼唧唧地提出这个问题.

来自辞典例句