及物动词
1. A dentist sterilizes his instruments.
牙科医生给他的器具消毒。
1. 消毒：facial mask:口罩 | sterilize:消毒 | sars affected area: sars 疫区
2. 灭菌,消毒：sterilization 灭菌,消毒 | sterilize 灭菌,消毒 | sterilized dressing 无菌敷料
3. 杀菌：sterilization 杀菌 | sterilize 杀菌 | sterling area 英镑区
4. 把...消毒：sterilization 消毒 | sterilize 把...消毒 | sterilize 消毒
1. 对…作灭菌(或消毒)处理
If you sterilize a thing or a place, you make it completely clean and free from germs.
e.g. Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment...
硫也可用来给器材消毒。
e.g. The milk was sterilized and sealed in bottles.
牛奶经过灭菌处理后被封装在瓶子里。
2. 使绝育
If a person or an animal is sterilized, they have a medical operation that makes it impossible for them to have or produce babies.
e.g. My wife was sterilized after the birth of her fourth child.
我妻子生完第4个孩子后做了绝育手术。
verb
1. make infertile
e.g. in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
Synonym: sterilisedesexunsexdesexualizedesexualisefix
2. make free from bacteria
Synonym: sterilise