impregnate
impregnate 英 [ˈɪmpregneɪt] 美 [ɪmˈpregneɪt]
vt. 使怀孕；灌输；浸透 adj. 充满的；怀孕的
进行时:impregnating 过去式:impregnated 过去分词:impregnated 第三人称单数:impregnates 名词复数:impregnates
- Use the verb impregnate to describe what happens when a male of any animal species makes a female pregnant. Human fathers impregnate mothers — otherwise, they would not become fathers.
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- vt. 使怀孕；灌输；浸透
- adj. 充满的；怀孕的
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1. Or impregnate her, depending on which version you read.
或者使她怀孕了，取决于你读的哪个版本。
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2. When the team looked at how likely the couples were to get pregnant, they found that men who drank alcohol and ate more red meat were significantly less likely to impregnate their partners.
当研究小组观察这些夫妻的怀孕可能性时，发现喝酒和喜食肉类食物的男性不太容易使伴侣怀孕，而喜食蔬菜的男性则容易得多。
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3. Ultimately, women have more at stake while dating because they face higher "sunk costs" — a woman can carry the child of only one man at a time, while a man can impregnate many women.
结果就是，女人在约会中获得了更多的筹码，因为她们“失败的代价”更高——一个女人一次只能怀一个男人的孩子（译者：基本上如此，当然也有特例，双胞胎不同父），而男人可以让很多女人怀孕。
- impregnate (v.) c. 1600, "to fill with an ingredient, spirit, etc.;" 1640s as "make (a female) pregnant), from Late Latin impraegnatus "pregnant," past participle of impraegnare "to render pregnant," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + praegnare "make pregnant" (see pregnant). Earlier in same sense was impregn (1530s), which OED marks as "now only in poetic use."
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