incubate

英 ['??kj?be?t] 美['??kjubet]

TEM8GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?incubates;過去式:?incubated;過去分詞:?incubated;現在分詞:?incubating;

incubate 孵化，培養細菌

in-,進入，使，在上面，-cub,躺，詞源同cubicle,succumb.即躺在上面，引申詞義孵化，培養。

incubate: incubate: [18] Latin incubāre, the source of English incubate, meant literally ‘lie down on’. It was based on the verb cubāre ‘lie’, which also produced English concubine and cubicle. The notion of ‘lying on eggs to hatch them’ seems later to have fed back into the simple verb cubāre, which in this sense gave English couvade ‘male mimicking of child-bearing’ [19] (an anthropological term borrowed from French) and covey [14].

Another English descendant of incubāre is incubus ‘male demon that has sex with a sleeping woman’ [14], literally ‘one who lies down on another’ (its counterpart is the succubus ‘female demon that has sex with a sleeping man’ [16], literally ‘one who lies down under another’). The nasalized version of the stem of Latin cubāre gave English incumbent [16] (which etymologically means ‘resting upon as a duty’) and recumbent [17].
=> cubicle, concubine, covey, incubus, incumbent, recumbent, succubus, succumb
incubate (v.): 1640s, "to brood upon, watch jealously" (which also was a figurative sense of Latin incubare); 1721 as "to sit on eggs to hatch them," from Latin incubatus, past participle of incubare "to lie in or upon" (see incubation). Related: Incubated; incubating.

1. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.: 鳥兒回到巢里繼續孵卵。

2. The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days.: 蛋孵化需要的時間是九到十天.

3. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.: 病毒在初次感染以后可以潛伏長達10天。

4. Incubate all the containers containing medium for not more than 5 days.: 培養所有含有培養基的容器,培養時間不超過5天.

5. Incubate the inoculated media for not less than 14 days.: 將接種后的培養基培養不少于14天.