• n. 蟲，蠕蟲；蝸桿；螺紋；小人物
• vt. 使蠕動；給除蟲；使緩慢前進
• vi. 慢慢前進；蠕行
• n. (Worm)人名；(德、丹、葡)沃爾姆

來自PIE*wrmi,蟲，來自PIE*wer,彎，轉，扭曲，詞源同wring,wriggle.

worm

worm: [OE] The ancestral meaning of worm appears to be ‘snake’; its application to smaller limbless creatures is a secondary development. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wurmiz, *wurmaz, which also produced German wurm, Dutch worm, and Danish orm ‘worm’ and Swedish orm ‘snake’. And this in turn went back to Indo-European *wrmi-, *wrmo- (source also of Latin vermis, from which English gets vermilion and vermin), a possible derivative of the base *wer- ‘turn, twist’ (source of English convert, reverse, etc) – in which case the worm would be etymologically the ‘twisting’ or ‘winding’ creature.
=> vermilion, vermin

worm (n.)

Old English wurm, variant of wyrm "serpent, snake, dragon, reptile," also in later Old English "earthworm," from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German, German wurm, Old Frisian and Dutch worm, Old Norse ormr, Gothic waurms "serpent, worm"), from PIE *wrmi- "worm" (cognates: Greek rhomos, Latin vermis "worm," Old Russian vermie "insects," Lithuanian varmas "insect, gnat"), probably from root *wer- (3) "turn" (see versus).

The ancient category of these was much more extensive than the modern, scientific, one and included serpents, scorpions, maggots, and the supposed causes of certain diseases. For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come. As an insult meaning "abject, miserable person" it dates from Old English. Worms "any disease arising from the presence of parasitic worms" is from late Old English. Can of worms figurative for "difficult problem" is from 1951, from the literal can of worms a fisherman might bring with him, on the image of something all tangled up.

worm (v.)

"to move like a worm," c. 1600, from worm (n.). In figurative senses attested from 1620s, suggesting patient, sinuous progress. Meaning "to free from worms" is from 1620s. Related: Wormed; worming.

1. The slow-worm is in fact not a snake but a legless lizard.

蛇蜥其實不是蛇，而是無腳的蜥蜴。

來自柯林斯例句

2. It took me weeks to worm the facts out of him.

我花了幾個星期才從他那兒套出事情的真相。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I worm all my birds in early spring.

早春的時候我給我所有的鳥打蟲。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Running water is never stale and a door - hinge never gets worm - eaten.

流水不腐,戶樞不蠹.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The worm inched along.

那條蟲向前蠕動.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》