粵

生sang1物mat6

sang1 mat6shēng wù

English

  1. organism; living creature; life form
  2. living organism; living things; living creatures
  3. (attributive) biological; bio-
  4. biology, the school subject

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 任何有生命嘅嘢,包括動物、植物、藻、真菌、微生物(量詞:隻/種)
  2. 研究生物嘅科目,即係生物學科目

Examples

  • 史前生物

    prehistoric life

  • 生物七大特徵

    seven characteristics of living things ----

  • 我主修生物。

    I'm a biology major.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 佢係哈佛大學嘅生物學教授。

    He's a professor of biology at Harvard.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 唔知第二啲星球度有冇生物嘅呢?

    I wonder if life exists on other planets.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 我中學冇讀生物,淨係讀過化學同物理。

    I did not take biology in high school—only chemistry and physics.

  • 如果我哋唔做啲嘢,呢種生物就會絕種㗎喇。

    If something isn't done, this species will soon go extinct.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 我哋一出世,呢個世界就開始將我哋加工,由單純嘅生物變成社會嘅一份子。

    As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

    Tatoeba · clowergen CC BY

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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