大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 virgin birth


释义：

virgin birth n. 童贞女之子；单性生殖

例句：



That is why the story of the virgin birth.

这就是为什么童女生子的故事。



You can hear my investigation of the science of virgin birth on New Year's Day on BBC Radio 4.

大家可以在元旦那天收听BBC无线广播4台的“圣女怀胎的科学”，那是有关我的调查的广播。



Hers is the best known story of a virgin birth in the world, but it is by no means the only one.

这是世界上人所共知的一个处子怀胎的故事但又绝不是惟一的一个。



So mother turkeys do have the genetic stuff for making males, although there may be other barriers to a "virgin birth".

所以说尽管可能还存在其它的障碍使得雌火鸡不能进行单性生殖，但是它们确实是具有生育雄性小火鸡的基因材料的。



While Mary should not have been able to sire a son through a virgin birth, your Christmas turkey could – at least in theory.

至少在理论上讲，圣母马利是绝不可能通过无沾怀胎而生育一个男孩的--圣诞火鸡倒还可能。



However, what science told us back in 1984 was that human females certainly could never have a natural virgin birth, because of a genetic barrier in mammals called imprinting.

然而1984年时候的科学去告诉我们，由于哺乳动物中存在被称作印记的基因障碍，所以说女性是绝不可能进行处子生育的。



Although extremely rare in vertebrates, parthenogenesis (out of the Greek for "virgin birth") occurs in a number of lower animals.


To consider yourself a Christian, must you believe in the Virgin Birth, or that Jesus walked on water, healed the sick, and rose triumphantly from the dead?


He said many of those who put themselves down at Christian did so because they thought of themselves "as a good person" rather than due to belief in the virgin birth, or of Jesus Christ as the son of God.


Indeed, Wolbachia's genes are so manipulative that they can convert male insects to females, kill males, induce virgin birth in females and even cause the offspring of males to die unless they carry the very same strain of Wolbachia as the father.