英语释义

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;

  "the casual couplings of adolescents"

  "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

片语

mating design交配设计

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mating system[遗] 交配系统，交配方案

mating face接触面

mating type[遗] 接合型，[遗] 交配型

Mating DisruptionMating disruption (MD) is a pest management technique designed to control certain insect infestation Specifically, mating disruption involves the use of synthesized sex pheromones to disrupt the reproductive cycle of insect

mating group交配组

interrupted mating[遗]

mating parts配件

mating season交配季

mating pair接合对

mating surface配合面，啮合面

英汉例句

• in a modified strip of offices in northern shanghai, tens of thousands of mr. xu「s bugs are mating and molting in plastic-foam boxes.

  在位于上海北部的一排经过改建的养殖场中，徐墨笑的几万只蟋蟀正在泡沫塑料箱中交配和蜕皮。

• the scientists explain that domestic fowl would certainly use a similar tactic, but normally they have fewer mating choices than their wild swedish cousins.

  科学家们解释说家禽当然会用同样的战术，但比起瑞典的野生堂亲通常它们可选择的交配对象少些罢了。

• the authors add that 「dall」s porpoises are known to be mating with harbor porpoises off the coast of british columbia, and seal hybrids have been identified in museum specimens and in the wild.

  该篇报道的作者们还补充说，「人们已经发现了白腰鼠海豚会在不列颠哥伦比亚沿海与钝吻海豚交配，而海豹的杂交后代也已在博物馆标本和自然环境中被识别。」

• but they「ll have to travel to brazil to study this in the wild—turns out that when it comes to mating in captivity, piranhas say, 」no tanks.

  他们只有旅行到巴西才能进行这项野外研究——寻找在圈养的情况下，食人鱼什么时候开始交配，但食人鱼却说：「要在没有水网箱的地方才能交配。」

• people may be reluctant to trade goods related to food and mating because in the recent evolutionary past it meant parting with a known object in exchange for an uncertain proposition.

  人们可能对交换有关与食物、交配相关的东西面露难色，因为在最近的进化历史里，这意味着为了得到一个不确定的建议，得失去一个已知的东西作为交换。

• this gives new insight into the mysterious mating habits of this creature and may aid in whale conservation.

  这研究对于该物种神秘的交配习惯提供了新的见解，可能方便理解鲸鱼的对话。

• females are attracted to the male booby’s brilliant blue boots, so it’s lucky for them that they get even brighter if they miss a mating season.

  雄性鲣鸟用它们亮蓝色的爪子来吸引雌性，而如果它们错过了交配季节，那对蓝爪子会变得愈发耀眼，这也可以算是一种幸运吧。

• every mating season, he says, the turtles leave their home and breeding ground in the salt marshes near jfk and take to the nearby sandy, open areas to lay their eggs and bury them in the ground.

  他说，在每个交配季节，海龟们都会离开它们在肯尼迪机场边上湿地中的家园和成长地，前往附近的空旷的沙地产卵并将它们埋入沙中。

• this is extremely difficult to do, as humpbacks are too large to be put in captivity for study, and no good methods for tracking individual mating patterns exist.

  由于座头鲸个头太大， 无法在密闭的环境中进行研究，并且也没有跟蹤单个交配模式的好方法， 所以对研究人员来说完成这项工作实属不易。

• as correlations go, the link between testosterone and violent crime is arguably as compelling as the link between testosterone and mating aggression for robins and other animals.

  睪酮与雄性北美知更鸟和其他交配期动物的好斗性之间的联系一样，睪酮和暴力犯罪之间的联系无疑是吸引人的论题。

• as the vertebrate monsters have waxed and waned, the insects have gone on mating and hatching and, as they do, populating every swamp, tree, and patch of soil.

  当脊椎动物们还处于盛衰无常的阶段时，昆虫们就已经统治了每一块沼泽，每一棵树木甚至每一块土地，它们在忙着交配，孵化出越来越多的后代。

• blue-footed boobies are aptly named, and males take great pride in their fabulous feet. during mating rituals, male birds show off their feet to prospective mates with a high-stepping strut.

  蓝脚鲣鸟真是名副其实，男性常常为自己极好的脚所自豪，在交配仪式中它们趾高气扬地走来炫耀自己的脚给未来的侣伴，总之脚越蓝，侣伴越具有吸引力。

• researchers in australia have discovered that some tunes sung by mating humpback whales become popular across the ocean and are copied by other whales thousands of kilometres away.

  澳大利亚研究人员发现，交配期驼背鲸唱的一些旋律会在大洋中流行，被几千千米外的其他鲸模仿。

• 「persistent mating attempts」 from males can harm the delicate females, so dr ide thought the females might close their wings as an harassment avoidance strategy.

  雄性蝶「反复持久的交配行为」会伤害到这些纤弱的雌性蝶，基于此，亚井博士认为合上翅膀也许是雌性蝶为了避开骚扰而采取的手段。

• in this research, catteruccia」s team found that this behaviour pattern was the same whether or not the mating had produced fertilised eggs that could hatch into mosquito larvae.

  在此项研究中，卡特尼西亚的研究小组发现不论交配是否生成可以孵化出蚊子幼虫的受精卵，其行为模式都是相同的。

• hereabouts was where e had spent most of her summer that year, mating at least once and fattening herself on rodents for the homeward migration, another winter in the den, and pregnancy.

  e在这一带度过了大部分夏季时光，至少交配过一次，还吃老鼠增肥，为迁移回家在巢空中过冬怀孕作準备。

• milarch said coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process and by mating with other trees.

  米拉克说，海岸红杉可以通过自然克隆过程自我繁殖，也可通过与其他树木杂交繁殖。

• brown「s study challenges the research of angus j. bateman, who in 1948 conducted a study on the mating habits of fruit flies.

  布朗的研究挑战了安格斯·j·贝特曼在1948年所做的对于果蝇交配习惯的研究。

• in this excerpt from the bbc/discovery documentary life, we learn about a mating strategy that」s fairly common in the animal world.

  在一段bbc和美国探索频道所拍摄的纪录片《生命》的节录中，我们学习到了普遍存在于动物世界当中的交配原则。

• they will be housed in separate enclosures at the city’s zoo and brought together for their annual mating season, which lasts only between two and seven days between march and may.

  在爱丁堡动物园，除了交配季节之外它们会被分开饲养。 大熊猫的交配季节很短，仅有二到七天，一般在三月到五月之间。

• 「the survival rate of panda cubs has risen from 30 percent several decades ago to nearly 90 percent now as a result of modern methods to promote mating and feeding, 」 xinhua said.

  新华社说：「由于采用了现代方法来促进交配和进食，熊猫幼仔的存活率已经从几十年前的30%提高到了现在的近90%。」

• might these disturbances confuse whales, sharks, dolphins, salmon, rays, crabs and other marine animals that use electromagnetism and sound for feeding, mating or navigation?

  这些扰动会不会干扰鲸鱼、鲨鱼、海豚、三文鱼、鳐鱼、螃蟹和其他利用电磁波与声波来捕食、交配和导航的海洋动物？

• 「some animals have started their mating season early this year because of the warm winter,」 maxim kozlov, the curator at ivanovo zoo, northeast of moscow, told reuters by telephone.

  莫斯科伊凡诺沃动物园园长科兹洛夫说：「由于暖冬的降临，一些动物已经提前开始了它们的交配季节。」

• an aquarium is a picture window of the underwater world. a piece of the universe where great things happen-birth, life and death; mating and feeding before our eyes.

  一个水族馆就是水底世界的一面窗户，一块发生种种伟大事件的宇宙，出生、生存和死亡，交配和哺育皆在人们眼前。

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