foetus
- 英式英标[\'fitəs]
- 美式音标[\'fiːtəs]
中文词源
foetus 胎儿
来自fetus的拼写变体。
英文词源
- foetus
- foetus: [14] Foetus comes from Latin fētus ‘giving birth, offspring’, which also gave English fawn ‘young deer’. It was a noun use of the adjective fētus ‘pregnant, productive’, from whose derivative effētus English got effete. Probably it was related to Latin fēcundas (source of English fecund [14]) and fēlīx ‘happy’ (whence English felicity), and there could even be etymological links with fēmina ‘woman’, from which English gets feminine and female.
=> effete, fecund, felicity - foetus (n.)
- see fetus; for spelling, see oe.
实用例句
- 1. Pregnant women who are heavy drinkers risk damaging the unborn foetus.
- 孕妇酗酒可能会危及腹中胎儿。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Using a scanner, we can look at the unborn foetus.
- 我们用扫描器可以观察未出生的胎儿.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. A routine scan revealed abnormalities in the foetus.
- 一次常规扫描发现胎儿畸形.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
- 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. It was as if he had become again a foetus in his mother's womb.
- 好象他又变成母亲子宫里的一个胎儿.
来自辞典例句
