procreate
英 [ˈprəʊkrieɪt]
美 [ˈproʊkrieɪt]
v. 繁殖; 生育; 生殖
现在分词：procreating 过去式：procreated 第三人称单数：procreates 过去分词：procreated
BNC.44852 / COCA.29588
同义词辨析
breedmultiplyprocreate【导航词义：繁殖】
breedv. 繁殖
〔辨析〕
只限于指动物交配繁殖；也可指饲养、培育动植物。
〔例证〕
Some animals breed very fast.
一些动物繁殖速度非常快。
Many families in the town become rich after they began to breed cattle and pigs.
饲养牛和猪以后，镇上的很多家庭都致富了。
一些动物繁殖速度非常快。
Many families in the town become rich after they began to breed cattle and pigs.
饲养牛和猪以后，镇上的很多家庭都致富了。
multiplyv. （使）繁殖
〔辨析〕
通常指动植物或微生物繁殖。
〔例证〕
Long-time exposure to the damp environment multiplies the bacteria in food rapidly.
长时间放置在潮湿的环境中使食物中的细菌迅速繁殖。
Rabbits multiply very fast.
兔子繁殖非常迅速。
长时间放置在潮湿的环境中使食物中的细菌迅速繁殖。
Rabbits multiply very fast.
兔子繁殖非常迅速。
procreatev. 〈正式〉生育，生殖
〔辨析〕
指人或动物繁育后代。
〔例证〕
They care about nothing except procreating.
他们关心的只是传宗接代。
Experts are doing research on animals' power to procreate their species.
专家正在研究动物繁衍后代的能力。
他们关心的只是传宗接代。
Experts are doing research on animals' power to procreate their species.
专家正在研究动物繁衍后代的能力。
牛津词典
verb
- 繁殖；生育；生殖
to produce children or baby animals
柯林斯词典
- VERB 生育；生殖
When animals or peopleprocreate, they produce young or babies.- Most young women feel a biological need to procreate.
大多数的年轻妇女都有生儿育女的生理需要。
- Most young women feel a biological need to procreate.
英英释义
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- The Bible tells people to procreate
双语例句
- The Grand Masters chose to procreate but did not perceive what this would cause ahead.
最初的大头颅人类选择来（这样混血）繁衍后代，但是并没有觉察到会给未来带来什么。 - Why do we breathe, why do we procreate?
我们为什么要呼吸，为什么要生儿育女？ - The couple who are both One-Child can procreate two children in most areas of China according Chinese population policy.
按照我国人口政策，大部分地区双方都是独生子女的夫妻可以生育两个子女。 - The comprehension and attitude about the sex in Achang society often mixed with the traditional idea of procreate.
阿昌族社会对于“性”的认知和态度往往与传宗接代的生殖观念糅合在一起。 - While priests were denied the right to marry and procreate, he said, their situation would remain impossible.
他说，只要牧师仍被剥夺结婚生于的权利，他们的处境就是令人难以接受的。 - Research by two Kansas State University psychologists in 2011 found that the urge to procreate often known as baby fever is strongest in women at younger ages, and decreases as they age.
2011年堪萨斯州立大学两名心理学家所做的研究发现，女人们想要生孩子的冲动也就是人们平常所熟知的孩子狂热症在年轻的时候最强，随着年龄的增加而减弱。 - Culture of spermatogenic cells in vitro is an important means in procreate develop.
生精细胞的体外培养是研究生殖发育的一个重要手段。 - But he spent years denying that he was the father, going so far as to swear in a court document he was, sterile and infertile, and as a result, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.
他很多年都否认自己是父亲，甚至在法庭文件中发誓：自己没有生育能力，所以，从生理上讲不可能有一个孩子。 - Menopause syndrome is a common disease which occurs during the interim from procreate phase to agedness phase.
更年期综合征为妇女由生育期向老年阶段过渡时期的常见病、多发病。 - Such humans have multiplied and equate to60% of the current world population; such humans believe that the only purpose of life is to marry and procreate; or find preoccupations that entertain or make one wealthy.
这类人繁殖到占目前世界人口的60%；这类人相信生活的唯一目的就是结婚生子、或找到可以娱乐或让人富有的职业。