organism

• n. 有机体；生物体；微生物

来自organ,运行，器官，组织机构，-ism,主义，思想，机制。即有组织运行的机制，后引申词义生物，有机体。

organism (n.)

1660s, "organic structure, organization," from organize + -ism. Sense of "living animal or plant" first recorded 1842. Related: Organismic.

1. The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture.

人的学习能力部分是天生的，部分是后天培养的。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The army is an extremely complex organism.

军队是一个极其复杂的组织.

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3. The amoeba is a very simple organism.

变形虫是很简单的生物体.

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4. It was an infectious organism that he studied.

他研究的是一种可传染病菌的微生物.

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5. Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.

遗传工程师将某一生物的小段遗传物质调换到另一生物，或与其互换。

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