mate的经典引文

1. 配偶
2. 老兄
3. 配对物
4. 助手
5. 老弟
6. 同事
7. 伙伴
8. 动物的配偶
9. 军士
10. 动物之偶
11. 一只
12. 【海】大副
13. 驾驶员
14. 【海军】二级准尉的助手
15. 【医】助手
16. 同伴
17. 哥儿们
18. 伙计

1. 使配对
2. 交配
3. 使成配偶
4. 使交配
5. 成配偶
6. 匹配
7. 【象棋】逼将
8. 将军
9. 将死
10. 成伙伴
11. 紧密配合
12. 啮合
13. 一对动物或鸟
14. 使一致
15. 结伴
16. 成为配偶
17. 一对动物或鸟 交配
18. 交尾
19. 使成双
20. 使 … 配对
21. 使 … 一致
22. 配偶

1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship
2. a fellow member of a team;

   "it was his first start against his former teammates"
   

3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner);

   "he loved the mare and all her mates"
   "camels hate leaving their mates"
   

4. a person's partner in marriage
5. an exact duplicate;

   "when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook"
   

6. one of a pair;

   "he lost the mate to his shoe"
   "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
   

7. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
8. informal term for a friend of the same sex
9. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
10. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

1. engage in sexual intercourse;

   "Birds mate in the Spring"
   

2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

   "This fact is coupled to the other one"
   "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"
   "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
   

3. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game;

   "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
   

1.伙伴，朋友(尤指男性之间)
You can refer to someone's friends as theirmates, especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends.

mate的解释

e.g. He's off drinking with his mates...
他跟哥儿们出去喝酒了。
e.g. Amate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
我的一个朋友在利物浦队踢过球。

2.(用于男性之间的称呼)老兄，老弟
Some men usemate as a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.

mate

e.g. Come onmate, things aren't that bad.
别灰心，兄弟，事情没那么糟。

3.配偶;性伙伴
Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as theirmate .

mate

e.g. He has found his idealmate.
他找到了理想的伴侣。
e.g. ...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates.
随着女人在商界的确变得和男人一样强大

4.(动物的)配偶，交配对象
An animal'smate is its sexual partner.

mate

e.g. The males guard their mates zealously.
雄性动物死死地守护着他们的配偶。

5.交配;交尾
When animalsmate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.

mate的近义词

e.g. This allows the pair tomate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box...
这样可以使这对公鸡和母鸡正常交配，让母鸡不再呆在鸡窝里。
e.g. They want the males tomate with wild females...
他们希望这些雄性动物可以和野生的雌性动物交配。

6.(商船上的)大副；（亦指）船员
On a commercial ship,the mate orthe first mate is the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also calledmates .

e.g. ...themate of a fishing trawler.
拖网渔船上的大副

7.(美国海军的)军士
In the United States Navy, amate is a petty officer who has a particular set of skills and who assists a warrant officer.

8.(象棋中) 同 checkmate
In chess,mate is the same ascheckmate .

9. see also: cellmate;classmate;flatmate;playmate;roommate;running mate;schoolmate;shipmate;soul mate

mate with (v.+prep.)

(使); 与…交配 (especially of animals) to (cause to) be joined in sexual union
mate with sb/sth

They don't mate with each other.

它们彼此不交配。

Dogs do not mate with cats.

狗和猫不交配。

The queen bee is likely to mate with two or three drones.

后蜂可能会与两三只雄蜂交配。

mate sth with sth

They mated a horse with a donkey.

他们使一匹马和一头驴交配。

Farmers keep trying to produce better cattle by mating their strongest bulls with their healthiest cows.

农民们一直在想让最壮的公牛和最健康的母牛交配以生产更好的牛。

• She expected to see two of his mates but no, the men were strangers.

  出自：P. Barker

• I was with my mate, John's brother.ssplaymatess, ssrunning matess, ssschoolmatess, etc.

  出自：New Society

• It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.

  出自：G. Orwell

• In speed His galley mates the flying steed.

  出自：Sir W. Scott

1. mate用作名词,作“配偶,伴侣”解时,主要指动物,偶尔也可指人。
2. mate在英国、澳大利亚以及非正式用语中,还可用作工人之间的一种称呼,即“老兄,老弟,伙计”。

1. mate用作名词的意思是“伙伴”,转化为动词意思是“结伙伴; 成配偶”,用于动物时,常作“交尾”“交配”解。
2. mate可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。
3. mate常与介词with连用。