foetus

英 ['fiːtəs]美 ['fitəs]
  • n. 胎儿
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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.

双语例句

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