transplant
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they transplant | |
| he / she / it transplants | |
| past simple transplanted | |
| past participle transplanted | |
| -ing form transplanting |
- transplant something (from somebody/something) (into somebody/something)
to take an organ, skin, etc. from one person, animal, part of the body, etc. and put it into or onto another 移植（器官、皮肤等） Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy. 外科医生成功地给一个四岁的男孩移植了肝脏。 Patients often reject transplanted organs. 患者通常排斥移植的器官。 Organs are transplanted from donors into patients who need them. 器官由供者移植到有需求的病人体内。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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- transplant something
to move a growing plant and plant it somewhere else 移栽，移种，移植（植物） The Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies. 荷兰人成功地把树移种到了东印度群岛。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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- transplant somebody/something (from…) (to/into…) (formal)
to move somebody/something to a different place or environment 使迁移；使移居 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- successfully
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Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb describing the repositioning of a plant): from late Latin transplantare, from Latin trans- ‘across’ + plantare ‘to plant’. The noun dates from the mid 18th cent.