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Spermicidal describes something that kills sperm — the tiny cells from a man's body that can make a woman pregnant. It is the adjective for spermicide. You will almost always meet it in front of a noun, in phrases like spermicidal cream, spermicidal gel, spermicidal foam, or spermicidal jelly, and on the box of some condoms: "spermicidal lubricant". So it is not really a word people say about a person or a feeling; it is a word printed on a product, used by doctors, and health teachers. The tone is clinical and matter-of-fact — a nurse says it without embarrassment, and that is the register you should copy if you ever need it. Note that -cidal words in English are built the same way and all mean "killing that thing": you can also read of a chemical being described as spermicidal in a science paper about animals or plants, where nobody is talking about birth control at all. One more thing worth knowing: teachers of health often add that spermicidal products alone are not very reliable, so the word appears a lot in sentences about using it *with* something else.
殺精的、含殺精劑的(如「殺精避孕膏」「殺精凝膠」)
組成spermicide + -al. The -al ending turns a noun into an adjective, the way music → musical. Inside spermicide: sperm + -cide, where -cide is the Latin piece meaning "killing".
同家族的字
- spermicidethe noun this adjective is made from — the product itself
- pesticidesame -cide 'killing': kills pests
- insecticidesame -cide: kills insects
- suicidesame -cide: killing of the self
- spermthe same sperm
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
spermicidaladj
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Having the ability to kill sperm.
spermicidalnoun
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A spermicide.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。