sterile
英 ['steraɪl]
美 ['stɛrəl]
- adj. 不育的；無菌的；貧瘠的；不毛的；枯燥乏味的
助記提示
1. *ster- / *star- "stiff, rigid" => stare.
2. => look fixedly at, look at sb / sth stiffly or rigidly.
3. *ster- / *star- "stiff, rigid" => developed figurative sense "sterile, barren".
4. *ster- / *star- => *ster- + -ile => sterile.
5. => barren, unproductive, not producing fruit.
中文詞源
sterile 土地貧瘠的，不育的，滅菌的，消毒的來自拉丁語 sterilis,土地貧瘠的，無收獲的，無產出的，來自 PIE*ster,固定的，堅固的，僵 硬的，詞源同 stern,stark.後用於比喻義指無生育的，以及殺過菌的，消過毒的。
英文詞源
- sterile
- sterile: [16] Sterile is a word of ancient ancestry, which goes right back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *ster- (source also of Greek stériphos and Gothic stairō ‘infertile’). The Latin descendant of the base was sterilis, acquired by English via French stérile.
- sterile (adj.)
- mid-15c., "barren," from Middle French stérile "not producing fruit," from Latin sterilis "barren, unproductive, unfruitful; unrequited; unprofitable," from PIE *ster- (1) "stiff, rigid, firm, strong" (see stereo-). Also see torpor. Originally in English with reference to soil; of persons (chiefly females), from 1530s. The sense of "sterilized, free from living germs" is first recorded 1877.
雙語例句
- 1. Too much time has been wasted in sterile debate.
- 在毫無新意的辯論上已經浪費了太多時間。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Urine is sterile.
- 尿液是無菌的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. George was sterile.
- 喬治沒有生育能力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The room felt cold and sterile.
- 那房間讓人覺得陰冷而沒有生氣。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.
- 這個蓋子嚴實地蓋在奶瓶上,保持奶嘴無菌.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》