Incubation
[ɪŋkjʊ'beɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪŋkju'beʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development.
(noun.) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear.
整理:罗莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
(n.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
手打:雷切尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Aristotle traced with some care the embryological develo pment of the chick from the fourth day of incubation. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Once each year my mother visited it for the five long years it lay there in the process of incubation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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