worming

基本解释

He succeeded in worming himself into power.
他成功地爬进了掌权阶层。
They have become a channel for the delivery of other life-saving interventions, such as bednets to protect against malaria, de-worming medicine and vitamin A supplements.
这些运动已成为提供其他拯救生命措施，如预防疟疾的蚊帐、除虫药物和维生素A添加剂等的渠道。
But tea-partiers will consider all the worming and the takeover to have been for naught if a candidate from the right of the party fails to win its presidential nomination.
不过，如果来自右翼政党的候选人无法赢得候选总统提名的资格，那么茶党成员会认为此前所有的努力都会化为乌有。

While Apple remains apparently stymied in its attempt to remake the television business, makers of TV add-on devices are slowly and quietly worming their way toward a new world of television.
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He got on a conference call with reporters yesterday to tout how Glaxo is increasing its donation of a de-worming pill for African kids by 400 million pills to a even 1 billion pills by 2012.
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A worm is a small animal with a long thin body, no bones, and no legs.
If you say that someone is worming their way to success, or is worming their way into someone else's affection, you disapprove of the way that they are gradually making someone trust them or like them, often in order to deceive them or gain some advantage.
A worm is a computer program that contains a virus which duplicates itself many times in a network.
If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something that is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and that might be better left alone.