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.
双语例句
1. Her father was a well-known racehorse breeder.
她的父亲是一位很有名的赛马驯养师。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The infected breeder flocks are quarantined from uninfected flocks.
把感染群同非感染群隔离开来.
来自辞典例句
3. Of course, the breeder reactor program involved in SIPI was not a routine government program.
当然, “公共情报有限公司科学家学院”一案中的增殖反应堆计划并非一个惯常的政府计划.
来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
4. That case, commonly referred to as the SIPI decision, involved the AEC's breeder reactor program.
