英语释义

• the male reproductive cell; the male gamete;

  "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material"

片语

sperm motility精子能动性

sperm binding[胚]

sperm reservoir精囊

sperm whale巨头鲸；[脊椎] 抹香鲸（等于Physeter catodon）

sperm donor捐献精子的人

Sperm concentration精子密度

Sperm Bank精子库

sperm cell精细胞，精子

sperm count精子数

sperm bank精子库

royal sperm皇者之种

accessory sperm副精子

sperm nucleus精核

英汉例句

• while the sperm are not fully functional yet, they will eventually be useful for understanding male infertility.

  尽管提取出来的精子功能尚未齐全，这一发现却有助于了解男性的不育癥结。

• several days later, harrington filed again, this time invoking a 1994 kansas statute stating that a man who donates sperm is not viewed as the legal father unless it’s agreed to in writing.

  几天以后，亨德里克斯再次提交申请。这次法院援引了1994年堪萨斯的一项法令，称除非得到了双方的书面同意，否则精子捐献则不被视为法律意义上的父亲。

• 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。

• thanks to new technology from the university of virginia, men will have a more accurate and affordable way to test their sperm count from the comfort and privacy of their own homes.

  得益于弗吉尼亚大学的一项新技术，在舒适隐秘的家中，男士们就可以用一种更精确更实惠的方式，来测试自身的精子数量了。

• if the clone reaches maturity and reproduces naturally, epigenetic changes will often be reset, returning the sperm and egg nuclei to a state in which they can differentiate into all types of tissue.

  如果克隆成熟并可以自然繁殖，表观遗传变化常常会被重置，回到精子和卵细胞核的状态~可以变成所有类型的组织。

• the boy protested; he said he knew his sperm donor, who had a daughter of his own.

  那个男孩反对说，他知道他的捐精者，他还有一个他自己的女儿。

• understanding the details of how sperm and egg cells grow will help scientists develop treatments for people who are left infertile when the process goes wrong.

  认识精子和卵细胞发育的详细情况，将有助于科学家为那些因精子和卵细胞发育过程出错导致不育的人开发出治疗新方。

• thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless ivf treatments, thanks to the discovery of a lock-and-key mechanism between sperm and egg cells.

  由于精子和卵细胞之间的锁钥机制的发现，成千上万的不孕不育夫妇可能不必再承受那毫无结果的体外受精的痛苦和花费。

• one natural prediction would be that 「clearing the chamber」 from time to time increases fertility by expelling old, ineffective sperm from the genital tract.

  预言自然就会是，时不时的「清扫房间」能增加精子的生殖力，因为老衰、无能的精子从生殖腔道排除了。

• when combined with sperm count analysis, agd is not a diagnosis in and of itself, but it can be useful test in terms of providing additional information to doctors and couples.

  当与精子数量结合在一起，agd本身不是一种诊断的数据，但是可以作为对医生和夫妇的一种额外的信息来进行测试。

• other studies have shown a boost in activity in adjacent regions of the brain when people hold cell phones up to their ears and changes in sperm when men keep cell phones in their pockets.

  其他研究显示当人们把手机放在耳边时相邻的大脑区域会大幅兴奋起来，如果男人把手机放在裤子口袋里会引起精子的变化。

• a human egg, with its nucleus swapped for that of a patient「s skin cell, can behave as if it has just been fertilised by a sperm and grow into a blastocyst.

  如果将一个人类卵细胞的细胞核换成病人的表皮细胞，它就能像刚经过精子受精一样发育并成长为胚泡。

• he said that an increasing number of young men are donating sperm samples ahead of cancer treatment, and that the success of the treatment depends in large part on the health of the sample.

  他表示有越来越多的年轻男子在接受癌癥治疗之前捐献精子样本，而这种疗法的成功在很大程度上取决于样本的健康程度。

• according to new scientist magazine, the scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor」s bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins.

  根据《新科学家》杂志的说法，科学家们想从女性捐赠者的骨髓中提取干细胞，然后用特殊的化学物质和维他命把干细胞变成精子。

• 「it is also possible that one male could produce both oocytes and sperm for self-fertilization to generate male and female progeny, 」 the scientists point out.

  科学家指出，「一个雄性也可能产生自体受精所需卵母细胞和精子，进而繁殖出雄性和雌性后代」。

• instead of growing super strength to fight for a female, they grow lots more sperm to increase their chances of fertilising her eggs and fathering the next generation.

  这种雄蜣螂会产生很多精子来增加让雌蜣螂受孕的几率，从而繁衍出下一代，而不是凭借力气来博得雌蜣螂的青睐。

• the crucial point in thinking about this is to realize that every time you combine a different egg with a different sperm ? you end up with a different person, right?

  考虑这个问题的关键一点是,明白每一次,你把一个不同的卵细胞和一个不同的精子结合,都会产生一个不同的人，对吗？

• if darwin had put two and two together, the study of sperm competition - now a major area of research - might have been launched in 1870 rather than 1970.

  如果达尔文根据事实推理，那么，精子竞争研究——目前一个主要研究领域——也许早在1870年而不是1970年就已经开展工作。

• when all the other sperm were just swimming around, bob was doing sprints and lifting weights all the other sperms asked him one day, "why don「t you just swim around like us?

  当其他的精子们每天无所事事的游泳时，他总是在练短跑和举重。 有一天，其他的精子们问他：「为什么你不像我们这样每天游泳就好了呢？」

• sitting on a bicycle seat for more than 30 minutes at a time — especially if you also wear tight bicycle shorts — may raise your scrotal temperature and affect sperm production.

  一次坐在自行车上超过30分钟——特别是你还穿着紧身自行车短裤——可能提高你的精囊温度并影响精子出产。

• business is booming for the world」s biggest sperm bank, denmark's cryos, which is struggling to meet demand despite a soaring number of donors and new offices opening around the world.

  全球最大的精子银行丹麦克瑞奥斯公司生意非常火爆，尽管捐精者人数飙升，且公司还在世界各地新开设了几家分公司，但仍供不应求。

• a north carolina man who was rendered sterile by cancer treatment as a teenager is now a father after doctors used a sperm sample he donated 22 years ago to impregnate his wife.

  一名少年时期由于癌癥治疗导致不育的北卡罗来纳州男子现在当上了父亲，医生用他22年前捐献的精子样本使其妻子成功怀孕。

• one problem is that they can’t travel about to find a mate — they are, after all, rooted to the spot — so they have to depend on intermediaries to bring egg and sperm cells together.

  第一成问题的就是，它们不能到处行走去找另一半——毕竟，它们是在当地扎下了根——所以只能靠中介机构把卵细胞和精细胞撮合在一起。

• the breakthrough came when some cells continued to grow, elongating and growing a tail which caused them to move, and forming recognisable sperm cells.

  突破的取得是基于发现：一些细胞继续成长、延长、长出尾巴（导致它们可以移动）和形成可辨认的精子细胞。