sperm
美音:
[spə:m
]英音:
[spə:m
]n.精液,精子,鲸油
难易程度:
sperm为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
形容词:spermous 名词复数:sperm
sperm
/spɜ:m; spɝm/
n
1 [C] (pl unchanged or ~s 复数或不变或作 sperms) male reproductive cell able to fertilize a female ovum 精子
*He has a low sperm count, ie He has few sperm cells and so is not very fertile. 他的精液中精子含量少.
2 [U] fertilizing fluid of a male animal containing these; semen 精液.
sperm
npluralspermorsperms[
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Late Latin;Origin: sperma, from
Greek,
'seed']
[C]also'sperm cella cell produced by the sex organs of a male person or animal, which is able to join with the female egg to produce a new life
[U]the liquid from the male sex organs that these cells swim in
=
semensperm counta medical measurement of the number of sperm a man has, which shows if he is able to make a woman
pregnant
1. Banks stocked with the frozen sperm of geniuses already exist, but they haven't created a master race because few women are queuing up to get pregnant this way. 已经有了贮存天才的冷冻精子的精子库,但它们还没有生成一个优等族,原因是很少有妇女排队等候以这种方式怀孕。
2. That such couples have other options (artificially bringing egg and sperm together, or adopting a child) is not an argument for denying them the right to clone. 这样的夫妇当然也有其他选择(人工授精,或收养孩子),但这不能作为剥夺他们克隆权利的借口。
3. They can go to a sperm bank and take a chance on unknown genes. 他们可以去精子库,尝试不知名的基因;
4. They can bring egg and sperm together artificially and dispose of any affected baby before placing it in the mother, or before birth — though that might be objectionable, too. 他们也可以人工授精,然后在将受精卵植入母体之前,或在生育之前,放弃有遗传缺陷的胎儿——尽管这也可能引起反对;
5. (The only exceptions are egg and sperm cells, each of which contains half the genes to grow a new individual.) (惟一的例外是卵子和精子细胞,它们的每个细胞分别含有长成新个体的一半基因。)
6. Or they can get a male relative of the father to be a sperm donor, if such a relative exists. 或者,他们还可以请孩子父亲的某位男性亲戚捐献精子——如果有这么一位亲戚的话。
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