sterile
英 ['stera?l]
美 ['st?r?l]
- adj. 不育的；無(wú)菌的；貧瘠的；不毛的；枯燥乏味的
助記提示
1. *ster- / *star- "stiff, rigid" => stare.
2. => look fixedly at, look at sb / sth stiffly or rigidly.
3. *ster- / *star- "stiff, rigid" => developed figurative sense "sterile, barren".
4. *ster- / *star- => *ster- + -ile => sterile.
5. => barren, unproductive, not producing fruit.
中文詞源
sterile 土地貧瘠的，不育的，滅菌的，消毒的來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) sterilis,土地貧瘠的，無(wú)收獲的，無(wú)產(chǎn)出的，來(lái)自 PIE*ster,固定的，堅(jiān)固的，僵 硬的，詞源同 stern,stark.后用于比喻義指無(wú)生育的，以及殺過(guò)菌的，消過(guò)毒的。
英文詞源
- sterile
- sterile: [16] Sterile is a word of ancient ancestry, which goes right back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *ster- (source also of Greek stériphos and Gothic stairō ‘infertile’). The Latin descendant of the base was sterilis, acquired by English via French stérile.
- sterile (adj.)
- mid-15c., "barren," from Middle French stérile "not producing fruit," from Latin sterilis "barren, unproductive, unfruitful; unrequited; unprofitable," from PIE *ster- (1) "stiff, rigid, firm, strong" (see stereo-). Also see torpor. Originally in English with reference to soil; of persons (chiefly females), from 1530s. The sense of "sterilized, free from living germs" is first recorded 1877.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Too much time has been wasted in sterile debate.
- 在毫無(wú)新意的辯論上已經(jīng)浪費(fèi)了太多時(shí)間。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Urine is sterile.
- 尿液是無(wú)菌的。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. George was sterile.
- 喬治沒(méi)有生育能力。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The room felt cold and sterile.
- 那房間讓人覺(jué)得陰冷而沒(méi)有生氣。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.
- 這個(gè)蓋子嚴(yán)實(shí)地蓋在奶瓶上,保持奶嘴無(wú)菌.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》