incubate

verb

1. 孵（卵）；孵化
   to sit on its eggs in order to keep them warm until they hatch
2. 培养（细胞、细菌等）
   to keep cells, bacteria, etc. at a suitable temperature so that they develop
3. 有（传染病在体内）潜伏
   to have an infectious disease developing inside you before symptoms (= signs of illness) appear
4. 潜伏
   to develop slowly without showing any signs

1. VERB 孵化;孵（卵）
   When birds incubate their eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out.
   1. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
      鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。
2. V-ERG (使)(病毒)潜伏
   When a germ in your body incubates or is incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill.
   1. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.
      病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达 10 天。
3. VERB 酝酿;逐渐发展
   If you say that plans or ideas incubate, you mean that they develop slowly after a lot of thought or discussion.
   1. ...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years.
      无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定

1. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
   鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。
2. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.
   病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达10天。
3. In addition, the pressure for revenue can incubate a rogue trading culture that turns a blind eye toward the behavior of star traders.
   此外，创收的压力下甚至可能滋生流氓交易文化，让人们对明星交易员的违规行为视而不见。
4. The EMFT project was initiated to incubate new technologies that extend or complement EMF.
   EMFT项目的发起旨在酝酿扩展或补充EMF的新技术。
5. As discussed in my last Comment lines article, we are continuing to incubate new cloud applications to support new delivery and deployment models.
   正如我的上一篇“评论专栏”文章所讨论的，我们在不断孵化新的云应用程序来支持新的交付和部署模型。
6. While it is typically transmitted in moist communal areas where people walk barefoot, such as showers or bathhouses, the disease requires a warm moist environment, such as the inside of a shoe, in order to incubate.
   脚气通常在潮湿公共区域的习惯赤脚走路的人之间传播，如淋浴房或浴室，这种病需要温暖潮湿的环境，如鞋的内侧，以滋生真菌。
7. You incubate a product in an atmosphere where that product is best incubated.
   你孵化一个产品，会选择最适合孵化它的环境。
8. Recombinant technology which uses genetic modification to incubate the flu proteins in faster-growing insect cells could help carve out the vital time that scientists need to more accurately target influenza strains that will circulate during the upcoming season.
   重组技术通过基因手段在成长速度更快的昆虫细胞中孵化流感蛋白质，从而可以为科学家节省更多宝贵的时间，更精确地确定下一季可能爆发的流感病毒变种。
9. Taiwan, not China as before, is now the best place to incubate young inventors, argues John Chen, senior director and consultant with the Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute in Taipei.
   台北的市场情报与咨询研究所的高级助管兼顾问JohnChen说，以前是中国，而现在是台湾，才是孵化年轻发明家的最好的地方。
10. Mind-wandering, often seen as daydreaming, allows the brain to incubate new approaches to familiar problems, serving 'as a foundation for creative inspiration,' says the 2012 study in Psychological Science.
    2012年发表在《心理科学》期刊上的那项研究还表明，常常被人们视作白日梦的走神行为能让大脑针对老问题酝酿出新办法，它是创造性灵感的基石。
11. Though you need to have places you can incubate things, you also need to innovate from the core, he said.
    我们需要一些能够孵化新东西的部门，但也需要从核心出发来创新，他说。
12. But it will also incubate ideas via the Internet, work with local partners and explore other options, such as stores within stores.
    但同时也将酝酿网络销售的想法、与本土企业合作，并探索店中店等其它选择。
13. Large-footed short-winged birds of australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs.
    澳大利亚大脚短翅的鸟；用腐草建造土堆以在其中孵蛋。
14. For example, the dengue fever virus takes about two weeks to incubate.
    例如，登革热病毒在蚊子体内大约需要两个星期的培育孵化期。
15. It took four days for the plague to incubate.
    潜伏四天后瘟疫形成了。
16. We try to incubate black mould in biology class.
    微生物课上，我们试着培养黑霉。
17. Our aim is similar – to groom and incubate new concepts into the leading internet enterprises of the new generation.
    斗谷的理念也是相同：我们的目标是培养有潜力的网站概念成为新一代中国的领先网络企业。
18. It's in Microsoft's DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity.
    持续研发可以增加生产力和创造力的产品，一直都在微软的DNA中。
19. The projects will incubate the latest courses co-developed with universities, promote the development of technologies and products, and eventually accelerate the corporate and social application of new technologies.
    和大学联合开发最新课程、研发技术和产品，并最终加速实现新技术为企业和社会应用。
20. The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days.
    蛋孵化需要的时间是九到十天。
21. Incubate samples at4 ℃ overnight or at room temperature for4 hours.
    请在4℃的条件下，作隔夜培养。或是在室温下培养4小时。
22. Some veterans think many will close, just as many of the projects they incubate will fail.
    某些资深人士认为，大量创业加速器项目都将倒闭，就像它们培养的初创项目会失败一样。
23. The size of the batch depends on how many eggs a manufacturer can obtain, inoculate and incubate.
    每一批的数量取决于生产商能获得多少只鸡蛋，给多少只鸡蛋注入病毒和进行培养。
24. Incubate under anaerobic conditions for the duration of the incubation period.
    在厌氧条件下培养，培养时间同培养期。
25. In this article the author discuss at the information society and knowledge economy time, we must important that apply new education technology to raise school teaching quality, so that incubate adapt to society demand new human being.
    本文探讨了在当今的信息化社会和知识经济时代，应该重视应用教育技术，以提高教学质量，从而培养出适应社会需要的新型人才。
26. Physiologically ready to incubate eggs.
    生理上易于孵化卵的。
27. We're going to need to incubate these eggs.
    我们要把这些卵孵出来。
28. Penguin eggs incubate on the feet of the males.
    企鹅蛋是在雄企鹅脚上孵化的。
29. Bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth.
    颜色鲜艳的海鱼，用嘴孵卵。
30. So the party began inviting entrepreneurs to officially join its ranks and establishing cells inside private companies to ensure they did not incubate an alternative political force.
    因此，党开始邀请企业家正式加入其阵营，并开始在私营企业中建立党组织，确保它们不会滋生其它政治力量。

  brood hatch incubate【导航词义：孵化】

  brood v. 孵蛋，抱窝

〔辨析〕尤指禽类孵蛋，直至幼禽破壳而出。

  hatch v. 孵出；出壳

〔辨析〕普通用词，指蛋破壳或孵出幼禽、小鱼、小虫等。

  incubate v. 孵（卵），孵化

〔辨析〕指禽类孵卵或蛋，或指卵、蛋等处于温暖的环境中直到被孵化。

verb

1. sit on (eggs)
   1. Birds brood
   2. The female covers the eggs

   Synonym:    broodhatchcover

2. grow under conditions that promote development