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Sterilize Make Sterilization Clean Fourth Completely Free Important

英语单词 sterilize
英美音标 英 ['sterəlaɪz] 美 ['sterəlaɪz]
中文释义 vt.使不育;杀菌 使贫瘠
英语例句 (1) After her fourth child she decided to have herself sterilized.
中文例句 (1) 她生了第四个孩子后决定做绝育手术。
vocabulary简明 When you sterilize something, you make it completely clean and free from any contaminant. It's important to sterilize tools, hands, and furniture in hospitals so germs don't get spread between patients.
vocabulary扩展 People who make their own jam and pickles need to sterilize the jars first, and when you feed a tiny baby it's important to sterilize the bottles. Whenever you need to make sure something is as clean as possible, you should sterilize it. The earliest meaning of sterilize is still in use, too: to "make infertile," or to make it impossible for an organism to reproduce or have a baby.
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 sterilise
1
[VERB 动词]对…作灭菌(或消毒)处理 If you sterilize a thing or a place, you make it completely clean and free from germs.
  [V n]
  • Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...

    硫也可用来给器材消毒。

  • The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.

    牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。

sterilization
  • ...the pasteurization and sterilization of milk.

    牛奶的巴氏消毒和灭菌处理

2
[VERB 动词]使绝育 If a person or an animal is sterilized, they have a medical operation that makes it impossible for them to have or produce babies.
  [be V-ed]
  [usu passive]
  • My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child.

    我妻子生完第4个孩子后做了绝育手术。

sterilization
  • In some cases, a sterilization is performed through the vaginal wall.

    有些情况下,可以经阴道壁施行绝育手术。

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