Female Animal Verb Sperm Male Fertilized Fertilization 英[ˌfɜ:Təlaɪ'Zeɪʃn

英[ˌfɜ:təlaɪ'zeɪʃn] 美[ˌfɚtlɪˈzeʃən]

n.施肥;受精，受精过程，受精行为[现象];受孕;受胎;

VERB

使受精;为…授粉

When an egg from the ovary of a woman or female animal is fertilized, a sperm from the male joins with the egg, causing a baby or young animal to begin forming. A female plant is fertilized when its reproductive parts come into contact with pollen from the male plant.

例：Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.某些物种只能异花授粉。

例：...the normal sperm levels needed to fertilise the female egg...能让卵子受孕所需的正常精子水平

VERB

给…施肥;使肥沃

To fertilize land means to improve its quality in order to make plants grow well on it, by spreading solid animal waste or a chemical mixture on it.

例：The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.粪便含氮，而正是氮可以肥化荒芜的土地。

例：...chemically fertilized fields.施用化肥的田地

verb:fertilize~