| 英语单词 | infertile |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'fɜːtaɪl] 美 [ɪn'fɜːrtl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.贫瘠的;不能生育的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Plants can't grow well in the infertile land. (2) The land became infertile during the nineteen seventies and early eighties. (3) According to one survey, one woman in eight is infertile. (4) Infertile women have a somewhat higher risk of developing breast cancer. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 在贫瘠的土地上庄稼长不好。 (2) 在二十世纪70年代到80年代,土地曾一度异常贫瘠。 (3) 有调查显示,8名妇女中有一名不育。 (4) 不育妇女患乳癌的倾向性较高。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Someone who's infertile isn't able to have children. Plants and animals, as well as humans, are sometimes infertile and can't reproduce naturally. |
| vocabulary扩展 | People who are trying to have a baby may find they're unable to because one of them is infertile, or not able to conceive. A woman who's infertile may instead be unable to carry a baby to term. Infertile is a French word, from the Latin infertilis, "unfruitful," from the roots in-, "not," and fertilis, "bearing in abundance." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词](人或动物)不能生育的 A person or animal that is infertile is unable to produce babies.
infertility
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](土壤)不肥沃的,贫瘠的 Infertile soil is of poor quality so that plants cannot grow in it.
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