Torc of leech free: This item is a band inlaid with precious metal, worn around the neck or upper arm.
He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech.
De Moraes has been working with the weed, which attaches to its host plant "like a leech that will attach to the plant and then suck the nutrients out."
Back around the year 900 the Venerable Bede first recorded the word leech in English and at that time he was talking about medical practitioners, not slimy sucking water worms.
大約在公元900年，可敬的聖比德首次在英語中記錄單詞leech,當時他指的不是水裏粘糊糊的吸血蟲，而是指開業醫師。
