1. 词析：’pollinate’意为“授粉”，主要用来描述花粉到达花器官的过程。此外，’pollinate’也可以用来指“传播”，比如说，某种想法或者信息。
2. 词源探究：’pollinate’起源于拉丁语“pollinare”，意为“使某物生根发芽”。这个词根据语境变化发展，逐渐演变成现在的用法。
3. 词汇搭配：’pollinate’可以与不同的名词组成词汇搭配，比如说“cross-pollination”（异花授粉）、“self-pollination”（自花授粉）等等。
4. 词汇用法：’pollinate’通常是及物动词，常用被动语态“be pollinated”。另外，’pollinate’也可以作为名词用，表示“授粉作用”。
5. 词汇应用：’pollinate’可以用来描述植物的生长过程，也可以用来形容信息传播的方式。在生物学、农业学等领域都有广泛的应用。
中英例句：
1. The honeybees pollinate the flowers in the garden.（蜜蜂在花园里授粉）
2. The flowers have not been pollinated yet this season.（这个季节花还没有被授粉）
3. The plant relies on the wind to pollinate.（这种植物依靠风传播授粉）
4. The farmers use bees to pollinate the crops.（农民利用蜜蜂授粉作物）
5. Social media is a powerful tool to pollinate ideas among people.（社交媒体是人们传播想法的强大工具）
[动词] 授粉；传授
读音：pɒlɪneɪt
例句：
1. Bees pollinate plants by transferring pollen from one flower to another.
蜜蜂通过将花粉从一朵花传递到另一朵花来授粉。
2. Without bees to pollinate them, many crops would fail.
如果没有蜜蜂传粉，许多作物就会失败。
pollinate在中文中有”授粉、授与花粉”的意思，其中文解释还有”对……授粉”的意思，在线发音：[‘pɒlineit]，pollinate在英语中经常以动词形式出现，在《学生实用英汉双解大词典》中，共找到36个与pollinate相关的句子。
1.授粉
例句:Well, bees pollinate almond trees, so if bees were to die out, the almond filling for our croissants would disappear. (那么，蜜蜂授粉杏树，因此，如果蜜蜂消失了，杏仁羊角面包填充我们就会消失。)
2.授与花粉
例句:Just as bees cross-pollinate flowers to help them grow, so will your . . . (就像蜜蜂们在花丛中为花朵们交叉授粉以帮助他们成长一样，你的业务…)
3.对……授粉
例句:Darwin hypothesized a moth… with a nose 12 inches long to pollinate it. (达尔文推论… 有一种12英吋鼻管的蛾 来替她授花粉)
4.传花粉给、对……授粉
例句:There are other animals that pollinate, like bats, and bats are in trouble too. (翻译:还有其它传粉动物，比如蝙蝠， 蝙蝠也有麻烦了。)
pollinate一般作为动词使用，如在hand pollinate(人工授粉)、self pollinate(v. 【植】(使)自花授[传]粉的
[网络] 自花传粉；自花授粉；自花受粉)等常见短语中出现较多。
[网络] 自花传粉；自花授粉；自花受粉
1. Darwin hypothesized a moth… with a nose 12 inches long to pollinate it. (翻译:达尔文推论… 有一种12英吋鼻管的蛾 来替她授花粉)
2. There are other animals that pollinate, like bats, and bats are in trouble too. (翻译:还有其它传粉动物，比如蝙蝠， 蝙蝠也有麻烦了。)
3. They lay their eggs in it, thinking it’s a nice bit of carrion, and not realizing that there’s no food for the eggs, that the eggs are going to die, but the plant, meanwhile, has benefited, because the bristles release and the flies disappear to pollinate the next flower — fantastic. (翻译:在上面产， 认为这是块很不错的腐肉， 没有意识到这儿可没有的食物，这些会死在这儿， 但同时这株植物会受益， 因为硬毛松开 苍蝇消失了， 授粉至另一朵花 — 太奇妙了。)
4. Of garden the cupid will come to pollinate. (翻译:选择传播地点的标准 {cHFFFFFF}{3cH111111}{4cH111111}… of garden the Cupid will come to)
5. Second, the reproductive parts of the wheat plant are close together, so wheat tends to self-pollinate. (翻译:第二，小麦植株的器官距离很近，小麦是单株繁殖的。)
6. You kill a bee, then maybe the flower it was going to pollinate doesn’t grow and its seeds don’t get spread and the animal that was going to eat the vegetation can’t, and it dies, (翻译:要传播的可能也不会再传播了 那些靠植物维生的动物 便会没有东西可吃 最终饿死)
7. Now, the scale of almond monoculture demands that most of our nation’s bees, over 1.5 million hives of bees, be transported across the nation to pollinate this one crop. (翻译:现在，杏树单一耕作的规模 要求我们全国大多数的蜜蜂， 超过150万蜂箱的蜜蜂， 由全国运送到这里 为这单一作物授粉 )
8. Ferrying hives with a forklift, Vince Vazza positions his bees to pollinate a cherry orchard near Oregon’s Columbia River. (翻译:文斯瓦扎用叉车运送着蜂箱，打算将他的蜜蜂安置好，为俄勒冈州的哥伦比亚河附近一个樱桃果园进行授粉。)
9. There are other animals that pollinate, like bats, and bats are in trouble too. (翻译:还有其它传粉动物，比如蝙蝠， 蝙蝠也有麻烦了。)
10. The bats get all the nectar they need to sustain their journey and in return, they pollinate the cacti. (翻译:蝙蝠要用花蜜支撑旅程 而回报则是为仙人掌授粉)
11. And they go to them to sip the nectar and, in doing so, pollinate the cactus. (翻译:它们前往舔食花蜜 这样就能帮助仙人掌授粉)
12. Abby Bernstein is one of the only berry bushes… that I have yet to pollinate, if you get my meaning. (翻译:艾比伯恩斯坦 是唯一的浆果灌木之一… 我还没有授粉， 如果你明白我的意思。)
13. That’s a big problem, because what’s going to pollinate all of the gardens and the produce locally? Hands? (翻译:这是个大问题，因为当地的花朵和蔬果无法授粉 要用什么传粉?难道用手吗? )
14. If you naturally pollinate a high-yielding variety together with a drought-resistant variety, you get a hybrid that inherits positive traits from both of its parents. (翻译:如果将高产品种和抗旱品种自然杂交， 得到的是继承了母本和父本优秀性状的杂交品种。)
15. And as you may know, bees pollinate one third of our food crops, and lately they’ve been having a really hard time. (翻译:正如你们可能知道的， 蜜蜂为我们三分之一的粮食作物授粉， 而最近它们却经历了一个非常困难的时期。)
pollinate作为动词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有d、pollinated/p、pollinated/3、pollinates/i、pollinating/s、pollinates等。
