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

• 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。
• Taiwan, not China as before, is now the best place to incubate young inventors, argues John Chen, senior director and consultant with the Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute in Taipei.
  台北的市场情报与咨询研究所的高级助管兼顾问JohnChen说，以前是中国，而现在是台湾，才是孵化年轻发明家的最好的地方。
• Bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth.
  颜色鲜艳的海鱼，用嘴孵卵。
• Though you need to have places you can incubate things, you also need to innovate from the core, he said.
  我们需要一些能够孵化新东西的部门，但也需要从核心出发来创新，他说。
• The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
  鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。
• Physiologically ready to incubate eggs.
  生理上易于孵化卵的。
• As discussed in my last Comment lines article, we are continuing to incubate new cloud applications to support new delivery and deployment models.
  正如我的上一篇“评论专栏”文章所讨论的，我们在不断孵化新的云应用程序来支持新的交付和部署模型。
• But it will also incubate ideas via the Internet, work with local partners and explore other options, such as stores within stores.
  但同时也将酝酿网络销售的想法、与本土企业合作，并探索店中店等其它选择。
• 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。
• 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。