maggot
n
larva or grub (esp of the bluebottle or cheese-fly), which lays its eggs in meat, cheese, etc 蛆
People use maggots as bait when they go fishing. 人们钓鱼时用蛆作钓饵.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
我认为,人丧失了廉耻就完了。
Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?