英语释义

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);

  "a woman of breeding and refinement"

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

• the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization

• raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;

  "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

• producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring;

  "the breeding population"

  "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"

片语

cross breeding[农学] 杂交育种；[生物] 杂交繁育

breeding gain[核]

livestock breeding畜牧业，畜牧饲养；[畜牧] 家畜繁育

breeding ground滋生地，繁殖地

plant breeding[植] 植物育种

mutation breeding[农学] 诱变育种

breeding season繁殖期；繁殖季节；生殖季

selective breeding[农学] 选择育种；选择性繁殖

cattle breeding牛饲养；畜牧

breeding value[遗][畜牧] 育种值

animal breeding动物育种；家畜育种

breeding stock种畜；[畜牧] 良种畜

close breeding[遗]

breeding sow种母猪

breeding objective育种目标

breeding field育种田

英汉例句

• the study looked at breeding behaviour in an isolated population of song sparrows living in grasslands on the island of mandarte, off the coast of canada.

  这一注视繁殖行为的研究在一个隔离的唱歌麻雀群中进行,这一麻雀群生活在远离加拿大海岸的蒙大特岛的草原上.

• there has only been a handful of zoos around the world that have had success with breeding this species and we currently have more eggs in the incubator.

  世界上只有为数不多的几家动物园成功进行了象龟繁殖，而现在在我们的保温箱中，还有不少象龟蛋正在孵化。

• the authors say this requires innovations — based on traditional and advanced crop and livestock breeding — to control pests and diseases as they evolve.

  这组作者说，这需要创新——建立在传统和先进的作物与牲畜育种上——从而控制不断演化的病虫害。

• conventional animal breeding should be able to meet much of the anticipated doubling of demand for dairy and meat products in asia and sub-saharan africa, but this may not be enough.

  传统的动物养殖应该能够满足亚洲和撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲地区预计将翻一番的奶制品和肉产品的大部分需求，但这可能还不够。

• under the pact, the national zoo will research panda breeding and cub behavior to assist china with panda conservation efforts.

  根据该协议，国家动物园将研究大熊猫繁殖以及幼崽行为，以协助中国保护大熊猫。

• while not as expensive as some military-trained dogs, the cost of breeding and training these dogs cost is not cheap at around $20, 000 each.

  尽管这些新培养出来的犬没有军犬那么昂贵，但饲养和训练它们的成本也同样价格不菲。每只大约要20,000美元。

• the breeding of snakes is serious business in america.

  在美国，蛇类繁殖是一项重要的交易。

• as for the trout, dr bradley says his fish have enough trouble breeding on their own for it to be unlikely that they would do well in the wild.

  至于鳟鱼，布莱德利博士说他的鱼本身在繁殖上就有一些问题，这些问题足以使它们不大可能在野外繁荣昌盛。

• he said the institute would need to be rebuilt, obtain new seeds, and only then restart crop breeding research programmes.

  他说该研究所需要重建，获得新的种子，然后才能重新开始农作物育种研究项目。

• breeding has produced types of wheat which can be grown in the north.

  通过育种已培养出可在北方种植的小麦品种。

• anopheles mosquitoes breed in water and each species has its own breeding preference; for example some prefer shallow collections of fresh water, such as puddles, rice fields, and hoof prints.

  按蚊在水中繁殖，每种按蚊有其各自偏爱的繁殖地点，例如有些喜欢在小水坑、稻田和动物踩踏后留下的泥潭等淡水蓄积之处滋生。

• these cells can be stored and multiplied in culture, and are theoretically capable of making any tissue in the body — including sperm cells that could be used in assisted captive breeding programmes.

  这些细胞可以保存起来并且在培养皿繁殖，理论上还有能力制造出身体上的任何组织——包括可能用于协助圈养繁殖计划的精子细胞。

• from 1917 to 1957, new jersey「s fort monmouth served as the breeding and training ground for these avian soldiers.

  从1917年到1957年，新泽西的福特蒙茅斯被用作饲养和训练这些鸟类战士的基地。

• compared to grassland, cropland provides few or no resources for breeding birds.

  与草原相比，农场提供很少，几乎没有资源让鸟类繁殖。

• but it wasn」t. he was born in a cage in oklahoma, in a breeding facility for chimpanzees.

  但事实不是这样，他出生在俄克拉荷马的一个笼子里，在一个黑猩猩的繁殖基地。

• instead, the cells could be converted into germ cells for use in assisted breeding programmes to help diversify the gene pools of endangered species, she says.

  相反地，她说，这些细胞可以转换成用于协助繁殖计划的生殖细胞，以帮助增加濒危物种基因库里的品种。

• the culprit is not sweat itself, but the bacteria that use sweaty skin as a breeding ground.

  罪魁祸首不是汗液，而是那些把充满汗液的皮肤当成繁殖场所的细菌。

• he collects the excrement from a panda breeding center in southern china.

  他从中国南方的一个大熊猫繁殖中心收集大熊猫的粪便。

• on the face of it, this seems unlikely, because the characteristics that have been engineered into them are ones designed to make them into better food, rather than lean, mean breeding machines.

  表面看来，这似乎不太可能，因为基因工程赋予它们的特征是为了使它们成为更好的食物，而不是竞争力强的高效繁殖机器。

• thousands of years of selective breeding have produced extensive genetic changes in the plants and animals we eat, not all of them good.

  数千年的选择性培育已经造成了食用植物和动物广泛的基因改变，并非所有的改变都是好的。

• even if the technologies to use them in assisted breeding aren「t mature, the cells offer a way to preserve the genetic diversity of individual animals long after they have died.

  即使把这项技术应用到协助繁殖上来还不成熟，然而这些细胞提供了在个别动物死后的长时间内保护其基因多样性的一种方法。

• either the [italian sparrows] just don」t like the look of the [spanish sparrows] or perhaps they have evolved a different breeding season.

  要么意大利麻雀不喜欢西班牙麻雀的外貌，要么或许它们已经进化形成了不同的繁殖季节。

• the breed is very popular for exhibition and was virtually extinct until a handful of enthusiasts recently started a breeding program to revive it.

  这是非常受欢迎的表演品种，几乎灭绝。一些蜷羽鸡爱好者最近起动了一项饲养计划才使它重新振兴起来。

• breeding from these cells should be comparatively easy. but finding and removing ovary stem cells is not.

  从干细胞繁育相对简单一些，但是发现并移动卵巢干细胞却并不容易。

相似词

refinement改进，改善；有教养；精制；文雅；[化工][油气][冶] 提纯

culture[细胞][微] 培养（等于cultivate）

behaviour行为；习性；运行状况（=behavior）

相反词

issue发行；流出；造成…结果；传下

posterity子孙，后裔；后代

progeny子孙；后裔；成果

seed(Seed)人名；(英)锡德