mutates

英 [mjuːˈteɪts]

美 [ˈmjuːteɪts]

v.  (使)变异，突变; 转变; 转换
mutate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)变异;(使)突变
  If an animal or plantmutates, or somethingmutatesit, it develops different characteristics as the result of a change in its genes.
  1. The virus mutates in the carrier's body...
     病毒会在携带者体内发生变异。
  2. A newer anti-HIV drug called pyridinone caused HIV to mutate into a form which could not reproduce or infect new cells...
     一种叫作吡啶酮的新型抗艾滋病药物能促使艾滋病毒变异，使其不能繁殖，也不会再感染新的细胞。
  3. The technique has been to mutate the genes by irradiation or chemicals...
     该技术是通过放射线照射或者使用化学方法使基因变异。
  4. He found evidence of mutated forms of the gene.
     他找到了该基因出现了变异形式的证据。
• VERB 变化;变成
  If somethingmutates intosomething different, it changes into that thing.
  1. Overnight, the gossip begins to mutate into headlines.
     一夜之间，传闻变成了报纸的头条新闻。

双语例句

• You don't have time to put in place a stockpile if the virus mutates.
  如果病毒发生变异，你没有时间去进行储备。
• There are a lot of antiviral drugs, but they are often ineffective as HIV mutates quickly and acquires drug resistance.
  虽然抗病毒药物有很多，但是当HIV-1很快发生变异或产生耐药性时，它们通常都失去了作用。
• Second, the virus mutates at an extraordinary high rate, generating billions of new variants each day ( 1).
  第二，病毒变异性高，每天产生数以十亿计的变体。
• Drug resistance occurs when the hepatitis B virus ( HBV) mutates, thereby avoiding the effects of the medication.
  乙肝病毒发生突变时会产生耐药性，籍此躲避药效。
• Vaccine development is difficult because HIV mutates rapidly, is not expressed in all cells that are infected and is not completely cleared by the host immune response after primary infection.
  疫苗进展困难，因为病毒突变快速，且不表达在所有感染细胞上，原发感染后且不能被宿主免疫应答完全清除。
• How did it happen virus mutates? At present, we have a vaccine can keep pace with the speed of variation?
  病毒变异是如何发生的？目前，我们拥有的疫苗能否跟得上变异的速度？
• But when the gene mutates, it stops guarding cells properly.
  但当基因突变时，它将不能适当的保卫细胞。
• The virus has killed about half of those infected and could spark a devastating human flu pandemic if it mutates to spread easily between people.
  如果它突变出容易在人与人之间传播的能力，这种病毒可能会引发灾难性的人类流感大流行。
• But like the flu jab, R genes can be rendered useless if a pathogen mutates into a slightly modified form.
  但是就像流感发作一样，如果病原变异为稍有不同的形式，R基因就会毫无用武之地。
• People familiar with the influenza virus mutates faster than even the development of influenza vaccine can not keep up the situation.
  人们熟知的流感病毒变异速度之快，甚至使流感疫苗的开发跟不上形势。