mating的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT夥伴，朋友(尤指男性之間)

You can refer to someone's friends as their mates, especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends.

• He's off drinking with his mates...

  他跟哥兒們出去喝酒了。

• A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.

  我的一個朋友在利物浦隊踢過球。

N-VOC(用於男性之間的稱呼)老兄，老弟

Some men use mate as a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.

• Come on mate, things aren't that bad.

  別灰心，兄弟，事情沒那麼糟。

N-COUNT配偶;性夥伴

Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate .

• He has found his ideal mate.

  他找到了理想的伴侶。

• ...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates.

  隨著女人在商界的確變得和男人一樣強大

N-COUNT(動物的)配偶，交配物件

An animal's mate is its sexual partner.

• The males guard their mates zealously.

  雄性動物死死地守護著他們的配偶。

V-RECIP交配;交尾

When animals mate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.

• This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box...

  這樣可以使這對公雞和母雞正常交配，讓母雞不再呆在雞窩裡。

• They want the males to mate with wild females...

  他們希望這些雄性動物可以和野生的雌性動物交配。

N-COUNT(商船上的)大副；（亦指）船員

On a commercial ship, the mate or the first mate is the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also called mates .

• ...the mate of a fishing trawler.

  拖網漁船上的大副

N-COUNT(美國海軍的)軍士

In the United States Navy, a mate is a petty officer who has a particular set of skills and who assists a warrant officer.

N-UNCOUNT(象棋中) 同 checkmate

In chess, mate is the same as checkmate .