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 sterile ['sterail]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不毛的, 不孕的, 无菌的, 贫瘠的, 无效的, 枯燥的

[医] 无菌的, 消毒的; 不育的




    sterile
    [ adj ]
    1. incapable of reproducing

      2. <adj.all>
      an infertile couple
    2. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms

      3. <adj.all>
      a sterile operating area
      aseptic surgical instruments
      aseptic surgical techniques
    3. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

      4. <adj.all>
      a sterile ideology lacking in originality
      unimaginative development of a musical theme
      uninspired writing


    Sterile \Ster"ile\, a. [F. st['e]rile, L. sterilis, akin to Gr.
    stereo`s stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that
    has not calved, Goth. stair[=o], fem., barren. See {Stare} to
    gaze.]
    1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful;
    unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile
    desert; a sterile year.

    2. (Biol.)
    (a) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction
    of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit;
    unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only
    stamens.
    (b) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile
    fluid.

    3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a
    sterile production or author.

    1. By the end of August, one complete generation of Medflies is thought to have come and gone since officials began releasing the sterile male flies, Ms. Zadig said.
    2. Officials unleashed millions of sterile pink Mediterranean fruit flies over a 16-square-mile area Tuesday in an effort to breed the agricultural scourge to extinction.
    3. His responses to the parries of politics, moreover, are often technical and sometimes sterile.
    4. If the all-night, eight-hour spraying assault wipes out enough Medflies, officials will release sterile flies to breed with the surviving insects to render them sterile, Donley said.
    5. If the all-night, eight-hour spraying assault wipes out enough Medflies, officials will release sterile flies to breed with the surviving insects to render them sterile, Donley said.
    6. During one trip organized by Iraq, Western reporters were allowed to walk into the supposedly sterile premature baby unit, where three babies were in one room and two in another, the doctor claimed.
    7. Priorities of the WHO campaign include improving medical care in East European countries, ensuring the use of sterile needles in hospitals, counseling for victims and their families, and providing better training of medical workers.
    8. John Masefield, chairman and chief executive officer, attributed the projected improvement to better market conditions for sterile health-care products.
    9. When it came time for the TA 29 gene to be "turned on" to help make pollen, the bacterial gene was turned on, the TA 29 gene destroyed, and the plant rendered male sterile because it couldn't produce pollen.
    10. "There is nothing here to indicate you can't proceed with the space station," William Kinard told reporters who viewed the Long Duration Exposure Facility in a sterile room where it is undergoing preliminary examination after six years in space.
    11. The sterile flies may wander into homes, but pose no health threat to humans, and most people won't notice them, Ms. Curry said.
    12. The final step will be the release of millions of sterile Medflies later this month so that the wild Medflies that survived the spraying will, in effect, breed themselves out of existence.
    13. Among the things the Grand Hotel has going for it apart from Old World charm and modern plumbing is the competition: the sterile, modern Intourist Hotel.
    14. But a transformation of southern Irish politics from sterile old republican rivalries is as much a part of the peace process as negotiations between unionists and republicans in the north.
    15. Peg-ADA, made by Enzon Inc. of South Plainfield, N.J., will allow children for whom bone marrow transplant is not feasible or has failed to survive outside a sterile environment.
    16. Under needle-exchange programs tried in Western Europe, drug addicts can turn in used needles and syringes for free, sterile equipment.
    17. Despite the failure to raise all the funds, the sterile fly release is expected to get under way in September, a FAO official said.
    18. The alleged perjury came during the suit brought by Linda Harre of Tampa, who alleged that the shield caused her to become sterile. She lost the $12.5 million suit.
    19. The spraying will be followed by the release of millions of sterile male flies to break the breeding cycle.
    20. The myth of Gloriana, the fruit of a misbegotten Coronation commission, savourless and even sterile in spite of its expertly deployed Grand Operatic machinery, has taken a long time dying.
    21. A few years ago he wrote to a law professor that he struggled daily as a judge with whether to rely simply on "reason" or to "go beyond sterile rationability and have government treat its citizens with dignity."
    22. Mumps can be more severe in adults than in children _ particularly for men, who are occasionally made sterile by the disease.
    23. The result is hard to predict, though it seems likely that a political stalemate will harden, doing nothing to change Japan's postwar reputation for sterile politics.
    24. The state plans to fight the flies in two ways: aerial spraying of malathion and the release of millions of sterile flies.
    25. The effort is expected to take two years and eventually require aerial drops of 100 million sterile flies a week.
    26. Without competition, we stagnate; we all lose. Open trade and competition are not simply philosophical or political subjects for sterile debate.
    27. Sixty to 70 percent of the 125 sterile or impotent patients who have been treated with "8311" were cured, said Dr. Ma Ran, deputy director of the No. 4 Hospital of Harbin.
    28. Three other sprayings will follow over the next several weeks. After four weeks, millions of sterile Medflies will be released to break the breeding cycle.
    29. "Do you get any impression now that it's a bit sterile, this convention?" "It's very lively.
    30. The game seemed one-paced, physically unambitious, tactically sterile.
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