• n. [昆] 小昆蟲；小煩擾
• n. (Gnat)人名；(英)納特；(俄)格納特

詞源同gnaw, 咬。

gnat (n.)

Old English gn?t "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 souket blood and hat in his mout a pipe, as hit were a pricke. And is a-countid a-mong volatiles and greuet slepinge men wit noyse & wit bytinge and waket 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.

1. "Tang" is "Gnat" spelt backwards.

Gnat倒著寫出來就是Tang。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

小事拘謹,大事糊涂.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. A novel human GCN 5 - related acetyltransferase, MAK 3 was found by bioinformatics analysis of the GNAT family.

在對乙酰化酶GNAT家族進行研究分析的過程中, 找到一個人GNAT家族 的新成員MAK3.

來自互聯網

4. He's always straining at a gnat.

他總是對小事很拘謹.

來自辭典例句

5. You need not sing to me like a gnat to profound that question.

你用不著象蚊子那樣哼哼唧唧地提出這個問題.

來自辭典例句