英语释义

1. to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation
yet every mother breeds not sons alike
— Shakespeare

2. beget sense 1
He bred a daughter.

3. produce, engender
despair often breeds violence

4. to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions
bred several strains of corn together to produce a superior variety

5. bring up, nurture
We were born and bred in the country.

6. to inculcate by training
breed good manners into one's children

7. mate entry 4 sense 3
the business of breeding cattle a horse that is bred to a donkey

8. to mate with inseminate

9. impregnate sense 2
delivered her kittens 63 days after being bred

10. to produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element

11. to produce offspring by sexual union
places where mosquitoes breed

12. copulate, mate

13. to propagate animals or plants

14. a group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters
exotic breeds of cats retrievers and other popular dog breeds

15. a number of persons of the same stock (see stock entry 1 sense 4a(1))

16. class, kind
a new breed of athlete such people are a dying breed

17. to keep and take care of animals or plants in order to produce more animals or plants of a particular kind

18. to produce young animals, birds, etc. to produce offspring by sexual reproduction

19. to take care of and teach (a child who is growing up)

20. a particular kind of dog, cat, horse, etc. a kind of animal that has been produced by breeding

21. a kind of person

22. to produce or increase (animals or plants) by sexual reproduction
Ranchers breed cattle for market.

23. to produce offspring by sexual reproduction
Mosquitoes breed in damp areas.

24. to bring up train
I was born and bred in this town.

25. to bring about cause
Poverty breeds despair.

26. a kind of animal or plant that is found only under human care and is different from related kinds
a breed of long-haired dogs

27. class entry 1 sense 6, kind I don't like his breed of humor.

28. to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation

29. to propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions

30. mate

31. to mate with inseminate

32. impregnate sense 1

33. to produce offspring by sexual union

34. copulate, mate

35. to propagate animals or plants

36. a group of animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters especially such a group differentiated from the wild type under domestication

片语

bred sauce红酱

Bred Wive孕育发家

Thoroughselectively bred与纯血马

cross bred杂种的

Once Bred曾孕育出

Bred Anderson罪孽

英汉例句

• and as a result of this partnership, china has bred more than 260 crop varieties containing genetic material from cgiar centers.

  由于这一伙伴关系，中国培育了260多种含有国际农业研究磋商小组各中心的遗传物质的作物品种。

• the specially bred mice can teach scientists much about both mouse behavior and the human brain.

  特殊培育的老鼠能够给研究者们带来更多的关于鼠类活动和人类大脑的知识。

• they bred mice to lack certain aspects of dopamine function and monitored the resulting din.

  他们培育缺乏多巴胺某种功能的老鼠，并且监测这些老鼠发出的声音。

• he infers that the wills memory is not part of our innate natural endowment but constitutes a capacity that has to be bred into us.

  他推断出意志记忆不是,我们内在遗传的一部分，而是,形成的一种可以培育的能力。

• the paper quoted a dairy farmer, speaking anonymously, saying that he was using milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily production.

  报道里引用了一位不愿意透露姓名奶农的话，提到他拥有一头克隆繁殖的奶牛，并且每天这头牛都会为他提供奶源。

• so naturally divergent cats were found and then bred so there is really no modification of the gene.

  所以我们找出这些有自然差异的猫，再用他们繁殖后代。这不是人为地转变基因。

• cruelty and the fighting instinct have not yet been bred out of the human species.

  残忍和好斗的天性并未从人类消除。

• embrapa scientists also bred varieties of rhizobium, a bacterium that helps fix nitrogen in legumes and which works especially well in the soil of the cerrado, reducing the need for fertilisers.

  「巴西农业研究公司」的科学家们还培育各种根瘤菌，这种菌类有助于豆科植物吸收保存养分，这一方法对塞拉多土地尤其有效，并减少了施肥量。

• by and large, this means very old roses that have stood the test of time, or very new roses, which have been bred for health.

  总的来说，这意味着老的玫瑰都经受住了时间的考验，而那些新品种则是为健康而培育的。

• the conviction bred serenity, her pulse slowed, and she was able to look about her.

  她的这种信念孕育出平静，脉搏的跳动缓慢下来，能够打量打量四周了。

• they crossed a tiger with a lion and bred a tiglon.

  他们将一只老虎与一只狮子杂交，结果生出一只虎狮。

• but researchers at washington university bred 「short-sleeping fruit flies」 down 90 generations so that they would act like insomniacs.

  但是华盛顿大学的研究者们培养出来一种「短睡眠果蝇」，已经繁殖90代了，这些果蝇的行为都像失眠癥患者。

• if it is promising, it is selectively bred with other fit offspring to see if the results, when subject to further mutation, can do even better.

  如果这个后代大有希望，那它则会被选择与其它合适的后代进行繁殖来看结果（这是会进行进一步的变化）是否会更好。

• but scientists at the university of florida have bred a new type of grapefruit that should enable people on meds to enjoy the fruit without the drug interaction.

  佛罗里达大学的科学家培育了新品种葡萄柚，它可以让人们尽情的享受葡萄柚，远离葡萄柚汁药物相互作用的困扰。

• zebroids have been bred since the 19th century.

  自从19世纪就已经开始杂交斑马的繁殖了。

• their study showed that mice bred to enjoy running produce offspring that also like it, showing that the baby mice had inherited the trait of high activity.

  这项研究表明，喜欢跑步的小鼠繁殖后代也喜欢跑步，这表明年幼的小鼠遗传了活动水平高的特征。

• more nutrients and vitamins may be bred into plants, combating the nutrient deficiencies that affect so many of the world's poor.

  可以将更多的营养素和维生素育入作物，防治正在影响世界如此众多穷人的营养素缺乏癥。

• just as obesity has proved dangerous to human flu victims because of the weight on their chests, being bred to have a short, bent respiratory tract is dangerous for dogs.

  正如肥胖已被证明由于胸腔承重过大，对患流感的人是相当危险的一样，对狗来说，培育呼吸道又短又弯的品种也是相当危险的。

• rifai, a jordanian, says australia needs to ditch the 「island mentality」 that bred complacency and a misplaced belief that international holidaymakers will beat a path to its door.

  瑞福爱，约旦人。 他说澳大利亚需要摆脱培育自足自满与错位信仰的「岛屿心态」，那样全球度假者就会蜂拥而至了。

• dogs are often bred far too frequently, are kept cramped together in squalor, and are not socialized with humans.

  狗狗们经常被过度繁殖，极不卫生的拥挤在一起，也没有和人类的社交训练。

• sulla: “for a while rome was actually ruled by kings, until the men of rome rejected the concept that a man could be mightier than the place which bred him. . . .

  苏拉说：“曾经有段时间，罗马确实被君王们统治，直到罗马的人民坚决反对这样一个人能够比一个养育他的土地更伟大的观念。

• so much had circumstances altered their positions, that he would certainly have struck a stranger as a born and bred gentleman; and his wife as a thorough little slattern!

  环境把他们的地位更换得这么厉害，陌生人乍一看，会认定他是个天生有教养的绅士；而他的妻子则是一个道地的小懒婆！

相似词

multiply乘；繁殖；增加

procreate生殖

propagate繁殖；增殖

reproduce复制；繁殖