foetus: [14] Foetus comes from Latin fētus ‘giving birth, offspring’, which also gave English fawn ‘young deer’. It was a noun use of the adjective fētus ‘pregnant, productive’, from whose derivative effētus English got effete. Probably it was related to Latin fēcundas (source of English fecund [14]) and fēlīx ‘happy’ (whence English felicity), and there could even be etymological links with fēmina ‘woman’, from which English gets feminine and female. => effete, fecund, felicity
foetus (n.)
see fetus; for spelling, see oe.
雙語例句
1. Pregnant women who are heavy drinkers risk damaging the unborn foetus.
孕婦酗酒可能會危及腹中胎兒。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Using a scanner, we can look at the unborn foetus.
我們用掃描器可以觀察未出生的胎兒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. A routine scan revealed abnormalities in the foetus.
一次常規(guī)掃描發(fā)現(xiàn)胎兒畸形.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
沒有人知道為什么母親的免疫系統(tǒng)不會自動排斥胎兒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. It was as if he had become again a foetus in his mother's womb.