• n. 跳蚤；低廉的旅館；生蚤的動物

可能來自PIE*pleu, 飛，詞源同fly.

flea

flea: see puce

flea (n.)

Old English flea "flea," from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (cognates: Old Norse flo, Middle Dutch vlo, German Floh), perhaps related to Old English fleon "to flee," with a notion of "the jumping parasite," but more likely from PIE *plou- "flea" (cognates: Latin pulex, Greek psylla; see puce).

Chaucer's plural is fleen. Flea-bag "bed" is from 1839; flea-circus is from 1886; flea-collar is from 1953. Flea-pit (1937) is an old colloquial name for a movie-house, or, as OED puts it, "an allegedly verminous place of public assembly."

"A man named 'Mueller' put on the first trained-flea circus in America at the old Stone and Austin museum in Boston nearly forty years ago. Another German named 'Auvershleg' had the first traveling flea circus in this country thirty years ago. In addition to fairs and museums, I get as high as $25 for a private exhibition." ["Professor" William Heckler, quoted in "Popular Mechanics," February 1928. Printed at the top of his programs were "Every action is visible to the naked eye" and "No danger of desertion."]

flea (v.)

"clear of fleas," c. 1600, from flea (n.). Related: Flead.

1. He finds material at auctions, antique shops and flea markets.

他在拍賣行、古玩店和跳蚤市場中尋寶。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Collectors of Fifties kitsch should pop over to Brussels for the flea market.

50年代庸俗藝術作品的收藏者應該到布魯塞爾的跳蚤市場去看看。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd.

他轉身朝跳蚤市場走去，很快淹沒在人群中。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The arena livens up only on Saturdays and Sundays when a flea market is open there.

只有在周六周日跳蚤市場開市時，這片場地才會熱鬧起來。

來自柯林斯例句

5. I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.

如果他再來打擾的話,我就要對他不客氣了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》