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:cellmate classmate flatmate playmate roommate running mate schoolmate shipmate soul 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

After mating the females lay their eggs, and both male and female die.
交配产卵后的女性，男性和女性死亡。
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。
This paper summarizes studies of special mating system, and of their reproductive strategy.
本文对果蝠的婚配制度及繁殖策略进行了阐述。
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。
In the future, if I have any questions about mating behavior, I'll Know where to go.
以后如果我有什么关于交配的问题，我知道去找谁了。
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 seed plumpness, seed viability and germination ability of27 mating combinations were studied.
研究了27个鹅掌楸交配组合种子饱满度、生活力、发芽力等性状的变异。
The mating patterns of elephants offer us key insights into family structures and life cycle behaviors.
大象交配的方式让我们可以了解到它的家庭结构和生活习性。