| 英语单词 | inoculate |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪ'nɒkjuleɪt] 美 [ɪ'nɑːkjuleɪt] |
| 中文释义 | v.给 ... 注射疫苗;灌输 |
| 英语例句 | (1) A corps of doctors arrived to inoculate the recruits. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 一队医生来给新兵打防疫针。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you inoculate someone, you try to make him immune to a disease by injecting a little dose of it, so his body can make antibodies to fight it off. When you were little you probably got a vaccine to inoculate you against smallpox. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When inoculate first came into English in the 15th century, it referred to inserting a bud onto another plant. Now you’re more likely to hear it used to describe the process of building up immunity to a disease by giving someone a vaccine, which also involves the insertion of foreign matter. You can also inoculate someone metaphorically, with ideas. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]给…免疫接种;给…打预防针 To inoculate a person or animal means to inject a weak form of a disease into their body as a way of protecting them against the disease. [V n] [
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