1. 1(醫院)保溫箱; (孵蛋用)孵卵器; (商業)企業孵化器

    1) A machine in a hospital that keeps a baby — especially one born early — warm and safe while it grows stronger. 2) A machine that keeps eggs warm so they hatch. 3) In business, a program or company that supports new, small businesses in their early, fragile stage, giving them space, advice, or money to grow.

core核心畫面

組成incubate (to keep something warm so it can grow or develop) + -or (a thing that does an action)

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  • incubatethe base verb this comes from

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

incubatornoun/ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.

  • 2

    medicinesciencesAn apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.

  • 3

    An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.

  • 4

    A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.

  • 5

    businessA support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.

    • So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.
    • Tech City is very big on "incubators" – places where startups are supposed to grow out of a collection of adjacent desks in a huge barracks of other adjacent desks – and on luring big firms to the East End of London.

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