fetus
英 ['fi?t?s]
美 ['fit?s]
助記提示
1. 三大兒：胎兒(fetus)、嬰兒(infant)、孤兒(orphan)。
中文詞源
fetus 胎兒來自fe, 吮吸，吸奶，詞源同female, filial. 用來指胎兒。
英文詞源
- fetus (n.)
- late 14c., "the young while in the womb or egg" (tending to mean vaguely the embryo in the later stage of development), from Latin fetus (often, incorrectly, foetus) "the bearing or hatching of young, a bringing forth," from Latin base *fe- "to generate, bear," also "to suck, suckle" (see fecund).
In Latin, fetus sometimes was transferred figuratively to the newborn creature itself, or used in a sense of "offspring, brood" (as in Horace's "Germania quos horrida parturit Fetus"), but this was not the basic meaning. It also was used of plants, in the sense of "fruit, produce, shoot," and figuratively as "growth, production." The spelling foetus is sometimes attempted as a learned Latinism, but it is not historic.
雙語例句
- 1. Surely the fetus has a right to life?
- 胎兒確實有生命權嗎？
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Microscopic examination of a cell's chromo-somes can reveal the sex of the fetus.
- 利用顯微鏡檢查細胞染色體可以發現胎兒的性別。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
- 沒有人知道為什么母親的免疫系統不會自動排斥胎兒。
來自辭典例句
- 4. Unfortunately, his wife had just given birth to a nonviable fetus.
- 不幸地是，他妻子剛生下了一個不能成活的胎兒。
來自辭典例句
- 5. A routine scan revealed abnormalities in the fetus.
- 一次常規掃描發現胎兒畸形。
來自辭典例句