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incubate v.孵；(细菌等)培养；逐渐发展；酝酿，深思；(传染病)潜伏 (1) 雌鸟孵蛋差不多十六天，在这期间，雄鸟带回食物。(2) 他在实验室中培养细菌。(3) 疯牛病病毒的潜伏期为三年。 The word can be used metaphorically to mean to keep something safe in order for it to have time to grow. You incubate a plan or an idea before bringing it into the world, or, metaphorically speaking, hatching it. Premature or particularly small babies are placed into an incubator when they are born. This warm, clean environment helps them to grow.

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英 ['ɪŋkjubeɪt] 美 ['ɪŋkjubeɪt] (1) The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food.(2) He incubated germs in a laboratory.(3) The BSE bug incubates for three years. When a chicken sits on an egg, it incubates it. To incubate means to keep something safe and warm so that it can grow. 1[VERB 动词]孵化；孵（卵） When birds incubate their eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out.   [V n]  [Also V]The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。incubationMale albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs.雄性信天翁参与孵卵。2[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)(病毒)潜伏 When a germ in your body incubates or is incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill.   [V]  [Also V n]The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达 10 天。incubationThe illness has an incubation period of up to 11 days.该病有长达 11 天的潜伏期。3[VERB 动词]酝酿；逐渐发展 If you say that plans or ideas incubate, you mean that they develop slowly after a lot of thought or discussion.   [V]...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years.无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定

英语单词	incubate
英美音标	英 ['ɪŋkjubeɪt] 美 ['ɪŋkjubeɪt]
中文释义	v.孵；(细菌等)培养；逐渐发展；酝酿，深思；(传染病)潜伏
英语例句	(1) The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food. (2) He incubated germs in a laboratory. (3) The BSE bug incubates for three years.
中文例句	(1) 雌鸟孵蛋差不多十六天，在这期间，雄鸟带回食物。 (2) 他在实验室中培养细菌。 (3) 疯牛病病毒的潜伏期为三年。
vocabulary简明	When a chicken sits on an egg, it incubates it. To incubate means to keep something safe and warm so that it can grow.
vocabulary扩展	The word can be used metaphorically to mean to keep something safe in order for it to have time to grow. You incubate a plan or an idea before bringing it into the world, or, metaphorically speaking, hatching it. Premature or particularly small babies are placed into an incubator when they are born. This warm, clean environment helps them to grow.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]孵化；孵（卵） When birds incubate their eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out. [V n] [Also V] The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs. 鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。 incubation Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs. 雄性信天翁参与孵卵。 2 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)(病毒)潜伏 When a germ in your body incubates or is incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill. [V] [Also V n] The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection. 病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达 10 天。 incubation The illness has an incubation period of up to 11 days. 该病有长达 11 天的潜伏期。 3 [VERB 动词]酝酿；逐渐发展 If you say that plans or ideas incubate, you mean that they develop slowly after a lot of thought or discussion. [V] ...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years. 无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定

Incubate Incubation Grow Birds Eggs Days Male Incubated