worm
美[wɜ:rm] vt.& vi.蠕动，曲折行进；给（动物）驱肠虫；使缓慢前进
网络蜗杆；虫；蠕虫；虫吃
1 . The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.
蛇蜥其实不是蛇，而是无脚的蜥蜴。
来自柯林斯例句
2 . It took me weeks to worm the facts out of him.
我花了几个星期才从他那儿套出事情的真相。
来自柯林斯例句
3 . I worm all my birds in early spring.
早春的时候我给我所有的鸟打虫。
来自柯林斯例句
4 . Running water is never stale and a door - hinge never gets worm - eaten.
流水不腐,户枢不蠹.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 . The worm inched along.
那条虫向前蠕动.
来自《简明英汉词典》
1.any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
2.a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
3.a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network;
worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers
4.screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
1.to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
The prisoner writhed in discomfort
worm，一般解释为蠕虫。一般认为蠕虫是一种通过网络传播的主动攻击的恶性计算机病毒，是计算机病毒的子类。早期恶意代码的主要形式是计算机病毒COHE1985 COHE1989 COHE1990。1988年“Morris”蠕虫爆发后，Spafford为了区分蠕虫和病毒，对病毒重新进行了定义，他认为：“计算机病毒是一段代码，能把自身加到其他程序包括操作系统上；它不能独立运行，需要由它的宿主程序运行来激活它”SPAF1988。而网络蠕虫强调自身的主动性和独立性。worm在磁带的术语里是一写多读，worm还是星际争霸2中出现的新兵种，具备运输本族单位的能力。