incubate

英 [ˈɪŋkjubeɪt]

美 [ˈɪŋkjubeɪt]

v.  孵(卵); 孵化; 培养(细胞、细菌等); 有(传染病在体内)潜伏

过去分词：incubated　过去式：incubated　现在分词：incubating　第三人称单数：incubates　复数：incubates　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10932 / COCA.18723

同义词辨析

broodhatchincubate【导航词义：孵化】

牛津词典

verb

• 孵（卵）；孵化
  to sit on its eggs in order to keep them warm until they hatch
• 培养（细胞、细菌等）
  to keep cells, bacteria, etc. at a suitable temperature so that they develop
• 有（传染病在体内）潜伏
  to have an infectious disease developing inside you before symptoms (= signs of illness) appear
• 潜伏
  to develop slowly without showing any signs

柯林斯词典

• VERB 孵化;孵（卵）
  When birdsincubatetheir eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out.
  1. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
     鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。
• V-ERG (使)(病毒)潜伏
  When a germ in your bodyincubatesoris incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill.
  1. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.
     病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达 10 天。
• VERB 酝酿;逐渐发展
  If you say that plans or ideasincubate, you mean that they develop slowly after a lot of thought or discussion.
  1. ...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years.
     无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定

英英释义

verb

• sit on (eggs)
  1. Birds brood
  2. The female covers the eggs
  Synonym:broodhatchcover
• grow under conditions that promote development

双语例句

• So the party began inviting entrepreneurs to officially join its ranks and establishing cells inside private companies to ensure they did not incubate an alternative political force.
  因此，党开始邀请企业家正式加入其阵营，并开始在私营企业中建立党组织，确保它们不会滋生其它政治力量。
• Bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth.
  颜色鲜艳的海鱼，用嘴孵卵。
• Incubate samples at4 ℃ overnight or at room temperature for4 hours.
  请在4℃的条件下，作隔夜培养。或是在室温下培养4小时。
• In this article the author discuss at the information society and knowledge economy time, we must important that apply new education technology to raise school teaching quality, so that incubate adapt to society demand new human being.
  本文探讨了在当今的信息化社会和知识经济时代，应该重视应用教育技术，以提高教学质量，从而培养出适应社会需要的新型人才。
• Physiologically ready to incubate eggs.
  生理上易于孵化卵的。
• The EMFT project was initiated to incubate new technologies that extend or complement EMF.
  EMFT项目的发起旨在酝酿扩展或补充EMF的新技术。
• Incubate under anaerobic conditions for the duration of the incubation period.
  在厌氧条件下培养，培养时间同培养期。
• The size of the batch depends on how many eggs a manufacturer can obtain, inoculate and incubate.
  每一批的数量取决于生产商能获得多少只鸡蛋，给多少只鸡蛋注入病毒和进行培养。
• We're going to need to incubate these eggs.
  我们要把这些卵孵出来。
• Large-footed short-winged birds of australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs.
  澳大利亚大脚短翅的鸟；用腐草建造土堆以在其中孵蛋。