estivation

英式音标：[ˌestɪ'veɪʃən]

美式音标：[ˌestə'veɪʃən]

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词义：

n.

夏眠；夏蛰；

英英释义

estivation[ ,i:sti'veiʃən, ,es- ]

n.

(zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period

同义词：aestivation

(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens

同义词：aestivation

用法：

权威例句

Estivation and Hibernation

Life in the slow lane: molecular mechanisms of estivation.

Physiological Capacity for Estivation of the Sonoran Mud Turtle, Kinosternon sonoriense

Comparison of hibernation, estivation and daily torpor in the edible dormouse, Glis glis.

Metabolic Depression During Estivation in the Australian Frogs, Neobatrachus and Cyclorana

Radiotelemetry Reveals Terrestrial Estivation in Sonoran Mud Turtles (Kinosternon sonoriense)

Glycolytic controls in estivation and anoxia: a comparison of metabolic arrest in land and marine molluscs.

Physiological and behavioral variation in estivation among mud turtles (Kinosternon spp.)

Energy and water flux during terrestrial estivation and overland movement in a freshwater turtle.

Metabolic Rate Depression and Biochemical Adaptation in Anaerobiosis, Hibernation and Estivation

同根词：estivate

造句：

1. Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.

加顿沉思着搅动自己的乱发.

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2. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.

他的文章是把别人的想法拼凑在一起的大杂烩.

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3. They are all a hotchpotch of outstandingness and of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.

她们皆是伟大与渺小,善良与邪恶, 高尚与低俗的混合体.

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4. This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.

这说明,一条碳税政策就比当前一堆乱七八糟的政策更具实效.

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