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.
双语例句
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.
