1570s, "one who produces or originates," agent noun from breed (v.). Meaning "one who breeds cattle" or some other animal is recorded from 1530s. Of nuclear reactors, from 1948. As a scornful homosexual term for "heterosexual person," attested from 1986.
雙語例句
1. Her father was a well-known racehorse breeder.
她的父親是一位很有名的賽馬馴養師。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The infected breeder flocks are quarantined from uninfected flocks.
把感染群同非感染群隔離開來.
來自辭典例句
3. Of course, the breeder reactor program involved in SIPI was not a routine government program.
當然, “公共情報有限公司科學家學院”一案中的增殖反應堆計劃并非一個慣常的政府計劃.
來自英漢非文學 - 環境法 - 環境法
4. That case, commonly referred to as the SIPI decision, involved the AEC's breeder reactor program.