新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

cloneIELTS重点词汇

英 [kləʊn]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

clones
1. [C 可数名词] 翻版
If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
双语例句
例：
Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.
汤姆在某些方面是他英俊父亲的翻版，只是要年轻一些。
2. [C 可数名词] 克隆
A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially, for example in a laboratory, from the cells of another animal or plant. A clone is exactly the same as the original animal or plant.
双语例句
例：
the world's first human clone.
世界上第一个克隆人。
例：
Each colony represents a clone of bacterial cells.
每一个菌落代表了一群克隆出的细菌细胞。

VERB. 动词

clones , cloning , cloned
1. [T 及物动词] 对…进行克隆
To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone.
双语例句
例：
The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction.
对绝种的生命形式进行克隆的想法仍然属于科学幻想。
例：
highly controversial proposals to clone humans.
备受争议的克隆人提案。
例：
The scientists will clone embryos from the skin cells of motor neurone disease sufferers.
这些科学家们将从运动神经元病患者的皮肤细胞中克隆胚胎。

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