sperm: [14] Sperm is etymologically something that is ‘sown’, like ‘seed’. The word comes, via late Latin sperma, from Greek spérma ‘seed’. This was a derivative of the same base as produced English diaspora, sporadic, and spore, and it may ultimately be related to English spray. => diaspora, sporadic, spore
sperm (n.)
"male seminal fluid," late 14c., probably from Old French esperme "seed, sperm" (13c.) and directly from Late Latin sperma "seed, semen," from Greek sperma "the seed of plants, also of animals," literally "that which is sown," from speirein "to sow, scatter," from PIE *sper-mn-, from root *sper- (4) "to strew" (see sprout (v.)). Sperm bank is attested from 1963. For sperm whale see spermaceti.
雙語例句
1. Doctor believed that his low sperm count was the problem.
醫生認為他的精子數太低是問題所在。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Conception occurs when a single sperm fuses with an egg.
當一個精子和一個卵子結合時受孕就發生了。
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3. It only takes one sperm to fertilize an egg.
只需要一個精子就能讓卵子受精。
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4. Each male ejaculation will contain up to 300 million sperm.