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Impregnate Male Pregnant N Impregnated Efforts Failed Animal

英语单词 impregnate
英美音标 英 ['ɪmpreɡneɪt] 美 [ɪm'preɡneɪt]
中文释义 v.注入;使充满;使饱和;使怀孕
adj.充满的;怀孕的
英语例句 (1) A great book impregnates the mind with new ideas.
(2) The drawing is impregnated with the artist's personality.
(3) David's efforts to impregnate his wife failed.
中文例句 (1) 伟大的著作总是把新思想注入人心。
(2) 这幅画充分体现了作者的个性。
(3) 大卫想让他妻子怀孕的努力失败了。
vocabulary简明 Use the verb impregnate to describe what happens when a male of any animal species makes a female pregnant. Human fathers impregnate mothers — otherwise, they would not become fathers.
vocabulary扩展 When dog breeders mate two German shepherds, they hope that the male will impregnate the female, or make her pregnant. When your cat has kittens, it's because the neighbor's cat impregnated her several months earlier. The Latin root, impraegnare, comes from in, "into," and praegnare, "pregnant."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]使浸透;浸渍 If someone or something impregnates a thing with a substance, they make the substance spread through it and stay in it.
  [V n with n]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V n]
  • Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.

    卧底警官发现了用于使迷幻药浸透到纸里的毒品制造设备。

  • ...a block of plastic impregnated with a light-absorbing dye.

    一块浸透吸光染料的塑料

-impregnated
  • ...nicotine-impregnated chewing gum.

    浸有尼古丁的口香糖

2
[VERB 动词]使受精;使怀孕 When a man or a male animal impregnates a female, he makes her pregnant.
  [V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Norman's efforts to impregnate her failed.

    诺曼想使她怀孕的努力失败了。

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