英汉词典

cell 基本解释

• n. 细胞；电池；蜂房的巢室；单人小室
• vi. 住在牢房或小室中
• n. (Cell)人名；(英)塞尔

cell 词态变化

cell 中文词源

来自PIE*kel, 隐藏，遮盖，词源同cellar, ceiling, hole. 即隐藏的小室，细胞义因其小室状结构而得名。比较cytology, 细胞学。

cell 英文词源

cell

cell: [12] Cell has branched out a lot over the centuries, but its original meaning seems to be ‘small secluded room’, for it comes ultimately from an Indo-European base *kel-, which is also the source of English conceal, clandestine, and occult. It came into English either via Old French celle or directly from Latin cella ‘small room, storeroom, inner room of a temple’, and at first was used mainly in the sense ‘small subsidiary monastery’.

It is not until the 14th century that we find it being used for small individual apartments within a monastic building, and the development from this to ‘room in a prison’ came as late as the 18th century. In medieval biology the term was applied metaphorically to bodily cavities, and from the 17th century onwards it began to be used in the more modern sense ‘smallest structural unit of an organism’ (the botanist Nehemiah Grew was apparently the first so to use it, in the 1670s).

A late Latin derivative of cella was cellārium ‘group of cells, storeroom’; this was the source of English cellar [13], via Anglo-Norman celer.
=> apocalypse, cellar, clandestine, conceal, hall, hell, hull, occult

cell (n.)

early 12c., "small monastery, subordinate monastery" (from Medieval Latin in this sense), later "small room for a monk or a nun in a monastic establishment; a hermit's dwelling" (c. 1300), from Latin cella "small room, store room, hut," related to Latin celare "to hide, conceal."

The Latin word represents PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (cognates: Sanskrit cala "hut, house, hall;" Greek kalia "hut, nest," kalyptein "to cover," koleon "sheath," kelyphos "shell, husk;" Latin clam "secret;" Old Irish cuile "cellar," celim "hide," Middle Irish cul "defense, shelter;" Gothic hulistr "covering," Old English heolstor "lurking-hole, cave, covering," Gothic huljan "cover over," hulundi "hole," hilms "helmet," halja "hell," Old English hol "cave," holu "husk, pod").

Sense of monastic rooms extended to prison rooms (1722). Used in 14c., figuratively, of brain "compartments;" used in biology by 17c. of various cavities (wood structure, segments of fruit, bee combs), gradually focusing to the modern sense of "basic structure of living organisms" (which OED dates to 1845).

Electric battery sense is from 1828, based on original form. Meaning "small group of people working within a larger organization" is from 1925. Cell body is from 1851; cell division from 1846; cell membrane from 1837 (but cellular membrane is 1732); cell wall from 1842.

cell 英文释义

1. any small compartment;

"the cells of a honeycomb"

2. (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

3. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

4. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

5. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

6. small room is which a monk or nun lives

7. a room where a prisoner is kept

cell 同义词解析

jail, prison, cell

这些名词均有"牢房，监狱"之意。

jail(英国英语拼写为gaol)指收犯轻罪的人或未经判决的人的处所。

prison： 指触犯刑律的人被关押的地方，通常指判决后的罪犯居留地。

cell： 指单人牢房或几个人合住的小牢房。

cell 双语例句

1. Three prisoners were sharing one small cell 3 metres by 2 metres.

3个囚犯关在一个3米长2米宽的小牢房里。

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2. He is cooped up in a cramped cell with 10 other inmates.

他和其他10名犯人被囚禁在一间狭窄的牢房里。

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3. The door swung open again, spilling light into the cell.

门再次打开了，光照亮了小屋。

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4. He was left to sober up in a police cell.

他被留在一间拘留室里醒酒。

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5. They beat them up and locked them in a cell.

他们殴打了他们，并把他们锁在一间囚室里。

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cell 实用场景例句

a terrorist cell

恐怖分子小组

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a photoelectric cell

光电池

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blood cells

血细胞

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the nucleus of a cell

细胞核

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Those cells divide and give many other different types of cells.

那些细胞分裂，产生出许多不同种类的细胞。

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...blood cells...

血细胞

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...Communist Party cells.

共产党的基层组织

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So Instead use sex toy cleanser that can be bought at a sex shop.

因此,不是使用性玩具,清洁剂,可以买一个性别店.

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A voltage is then applied across the cell electrodes.

然后给电池的正负电极施加电压.

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They confined the prisoner in a cell.

他们把犯人监禁在监狱里.

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A warder appeared at the cell door.

一个看守出现在牢门口.

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The reduction in white blood cell counts lowers resistance to disease.

白细胞总数的减少,会降低对疾病的抵抗力.

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The fission of the cell could be inhibited with certain chemicals.

细胞的裂变可以通过某些化学药品加以抑制.

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They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.

他们已把犯人监禁在小牢房里.

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The bed and the toilet were the only furnishings in the tiny cell.

床和马桶是这小单人禁闭室内惟一的陈设.

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There is cholesterol in the cell of body.

人体细胞里有胆固醇.

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The cell is padded.

这个小房间装有护垫.

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the nucleus of a cell

细胞核

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attempts to prevent cancer cell proliferation

防止癌细胞扩散的努力

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a tiny, windowless cell

一间没有窗户的斗室

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Three prisoners were sharing one small cell 3 metres by 2 metres.

3个囚犯关在一个3米长2米宽的小牢房里。

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Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been caught trying to hide a razor blade in his cell.

食人杀手杰弗里·达默被抓到试图将一片剃须刀片藏在牢房里。

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Smoking triggers off cell proliferation.

吸烟会引起细胞增生。

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You become a rebel if you are banged up in a cell 23 hours a day.

要是一天23小时被关在一间牢房里，谁都会造反的。

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