foetus

• n. 胎儿

词态变化

中文词源

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