• vt. [醫(yī)] 接種；嫁接；灌輸

in-,進入，使，-oc,眼，詞源同eye,ocular.比喻用法，由眼引申詞義針眼，打針。

inoculate

inoculate: [15] Far-fetched as the connection may seem, inoculate actually comes ultimately from Latin oculus ‘eye’ (source of English ocular [16] and oculist [17]). By metaphorical extension oculus was applied to the ‘bud’ of a plant (much like the eye of a potato in English), and the verb inoculāre was coined to denote the grafting on of a bud or other plan part.

That was how it was used when originally adopted into English (‘Peaches have their Season at May Kalends them to inoculate’, Palladius on Husbandry 1440), and the modern sense ‘introduce antigens into the body’ did not emerge before the early 18th century, based on the notion of ‘engrafting’ or ‘implanting’ an immunising virus into a person. It was originally used with reference to smallpox.
=> eye, ferocious, ocular

inoculate (v.)

mid-15c., "implant a bud into a plant," from Latin inoculatus, past participle of inoculare "graft in, implant," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + oculus "bud," originally "eye" (see eye (n.)). Meaning "implant germs of a disease to produce immunity" first recorded (in inoculation) 1714, originally in reference to smallpox. After 1799, often used in sense of "to vaccine inoculate." Related: Inoculated; inoculating.

1. A corps of doctors arrived to inoculate the recruits.

一隊醫(yī)生來給新兵打防疫針.

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2. After the 1960 s, China began to inoculate BCG, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, measles and poliomyelitis vaccines.

六十年代后, 中國開始在大、中城市接種卡介苗 、 百日咳 、 白喉 、 破傷風(fēng) 、 麻疹、脊髓灰質(zhì)炎的疫苗的工作.

來自漢英非文學(xué) - 白皮書

3. I was just meant to come out here and inoculate some wee babies.

我是過來這邊給小孩子們接種疫苗的.

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4. Inoculate lactic acid funguses ferment in the mixture of banana and milk.

將香蕉泥與牛奶調(diào)配接種乳酸菌發(fā)酵制成凝固型香蕉酸牛乳.

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5. An invisible god can inoculate you against those failures.

看不見的神可以幫你預(yù)防這些失誤.

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