metabolism

名词 n.
/mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.əm/|[mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.m̩]    /məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.əm/|[məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.m̩]|/mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.əm/|[mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.m̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. countable,uncountable
    — The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require oxygen
  2. The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Small animals have a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose more body heat
  3. The processes that maintain any dynamic system. broadly,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

词形变化

metabolisms plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō
Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō)
Ancient Greek μεταβάλλω (metabállō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English metabolism
From Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ism, from μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “to change, to alter”) + -η (-ē, action noun suffix).
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