| 词汇 | sterile |
| 释义 | sterile adjective uk /ˈster.aɪl/ us /ˈster.əl/ sterileadjective (UNABLE TO PRODUCE)(of a living being) unable to produce young, or (of land) unable to produce plants or crops: （生物）不育的;（土地）贫瘠的，不长作物的 Mules are usually sterile.骡子通常无法生育。 One of the side effects of the drug could be to make men sterile.这种药物的副作用之一是可能会导致男性不育。 having no imagination, new ideas, or energy: 缺乏想象力的;缺乏新意的;无生气的 a sterile argument毫无新意的论点 Animal reproduction androgen anti-oestrogen asexuality asexually barrenness calve fertile gamete impregnate out-reproduce ovulate ovulation panmictic panmixia procreate procreation procreative rut semen spawn You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Fertile or infertile land Tedious and uninspiring sterileadjective (CLEAN)completely clean and free from dirt and bacteria: 消过毒的，无菌的 The operation must be carried out under sterile conditions.手术必须在无菌条件下进行。 free from dirt cleanAre these clothes clean? immaculateThe whole house was immaculate. spotlessHe was wearing a spotless white shirt. spick and spanTheir house is always spick and span. pureI love the pure mountain air. Clean & tidy (as) clean as a (new) pinidiom apple pie asepsis aseptic be in apple-pie orderidiom neatly neatness non-clogging non-polluting ordered spotlessly sprucely squeaky-clean stainless super-clean untarnished unwrinkled virginal virginally well kept sterile | American Dictionarysterile adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈster·əl/ sterileadjective[not gradable] (UNABLE TO PRODUCE)(of a person or animal) unable to produce young, or of land unable to produce plants or crops: It was a small oasis surrounded by sterile desert. sterileadjective[not gradable] (WITHOUT BACTERIA)free from bacteria: Medical equipment must be kept sterile. sterileadjective[not gradable] (LACKING)lacking in imagination, ideas, or enthusiasm: Suburban housing developments are often sterile environments. Examples of sterilesterile The sterile insect technique has demonstrated its ability to reduce fruit fly populations, and consequently reduce damage to fruit. Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock. Specimens are extracted under clean and sterile conditions. In the prison for males, social workers from a non-governmental organization exchanged sterile syringes and needles for used equipment three times a week. Incubation vessels inside the chamber were filled with sterile sand, inoculated with crushed sandstone-based biofilms and allowed to incubate for 5.5 months. Samples were collected from fresh faecal pats into sterile plastic containers. In recording topography, the tendency has been to survey the earthworks in isolation, yielding aesthetic, yet largely sterile, sets of two-dimensional plans. Climbers were identified to species or morphospecies using vegetative characteristics of sterile specimens collected or observed in the field. This implies that mules, workers ants, and other sterile individuals are not alive. This requirement causes controversy, since it does not recognize various sterile organisms as being alive. Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species. It remains to be assessed whether terminator varieties are, accidentally or otherwise, capable of rendering the seeds of (adjacent) non-terminator varieties also sterile. The addition of a sterile compost activator (a source of inorganic nutrients) to the vermiculite and seed mix resulted in greatly increased germination (95.2%). Without this duplication, the mutant flies would be sterile. A work so conceived can have no emotional power; it is bound to be dull and sterile. See all examples of sterile These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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