mating

英 [ˈmeɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈmeɪtɪŋ]

n.  交尾; 交配
v.  交配; 交尾; 使交配
mate的现在分词

现在分词：mating　复数：matings　

TEM8化学

BNC.16269 / COCA.12777

牛津词典

noun

• 交尾；交配
  sex between animals
  1. the mating season
     交配季节

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 伙伴，朋友(尤指男性之间)
  You can refer to someone's friends as theirmates, especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends.
  1. He's off drinking with his mates...
     他跟哥儿们出去喝酒了。
  2. A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
     我的一个朋友在利物浦队踢过球。
• N-VOC (用于男性之间的称呼)老兄，老弟
  Some men usemateas a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.
  1. Come on mate, things aren't that bad.
     别灰心，兄弟，事情没那么糟。
• N-COUNT 配偶;性伙伴
  Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as theirmate.
  1. He has found his ideal mate.
     他找到了理想的伴侣。
  2. ...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates.
     随着女人在商界的确变得和男人一样强大
• N-COUNT (动物的)配偶，交配对象
  An animal'smateis its sexual partner.
  1. The males guard their mates zealously.
     雄性动物死死地守护着他们的配偶。
• V-RECIP 交配;交尾
  When animalsmate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.
  1. This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box...
     这样可以使这对公鸡和母鸡正常交配，让母鸡不再呆在鸡窝里。
  2. They want the males to mate with wild females...
     他们希望这些雄性动物可以和野生的雌性动物交配。
  3. It is easy to tell when a female is ready to mate.
     雌性动物何时准备交配一目了然。
  4. ...the mating season.
     交配季节
• N-COUNT (商船上的)大副；（亦指）船员
  On a commercial ship,the mateorthe first mateis the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also calledmates.
  1. ...the mate of a fishing trawler.
     拖网渔船上的大副
• (美国海军的)军士
  In the United States Navy, amateis a petty officer who has a particular set of skills and who assists a warrant officer.
• (象棋中) 同 checkmate
  In chess,mateis the same ascheckmate.
• See also:cellmateclassmateflatmateplaymateroommaterunning mateschoolmateshipmatesoul mate

英英释义

noun

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
  1. the casual couplings of adolescents
  2. the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
  Synonym:couplingpairingconjugationunionsexual union

双语例句

• They first created inbred beetles by mating sisters with brothers for several generations.
  他们首先让兄弟姐妹之间进行交配，经过几代后创造出近亲繁殖的甲虫。
• Disruptions in the mating patterns of several species of seabird have been reported across the globe.
  世界各地都出现了关于某些种类的海鸟交配模式被破坏的报道。
• That is because it breaks up optimal mating patterns.
  那是因为它打破了理想的配偶模式。
• A mating dance has a female bird recovering from injuries after the couple slammed into a snowbank.
  在这对夫妇猛烈撞击了一个雪堤后，交配出一只从受伤中复原的雌鸟。
• A reduced height wire to board connector assembly includes mating plug and receptacle connectors.
  一种降低高度的线到板连接器组件，包括配合的插头连接器和插座连接器。
• The kind of mating, using as one parent a known homozygous recessive, is called a testcross.
  这种杂交即利用一个已知的纯合的隐性作为一个亲本的杂交，称为测交。
• Mosquitoes also use sound as a mating call.
  蚊子也用声音作为交配的呼唤。
• Cases are known where trioecy or, more generally, heteroecy, provides for an optimal mating system.
  众所周知，单全异株，或者更通俗一些说，雌雄杂生为最适交配打下基础。
• When mating, adult zebras use stripes to recognize members of their own species.
  在交配时，成年斑马则可以通过斑纹来识别自己的同类。
• The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding ( especially as applied to human mating).
  为改进遗传品质的饲养选择的方法研究，特别是对人类的。