Nearly all our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of insects to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them

我们的兰科植物，大都需要昆虫传递花粉，才能受精。

||1: Fertilising these eggs for experimentation is forbidden in America. Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, however, will allow it in certain cases. ||2: So next month Dr Tilly will take some of his stem cell booty to Edinburgh to collaborate with Evelyn Telfer, who has developed a technique for growing human eggs from an early stage. ||3: She holds a licence to fertilise them experimentally.

||1:美国禁止为实验用的卵细胞受精，不过英国的人类受精和胚胎学管理局将在某些研究中允许给卵细胞授精。||2: 所以，下个月Tilly博士将带着卵细胞去爱丁堡与Evelyn Telfer合作。 ||3: Evelyn Telfer掌握了用卵母细胞培育卵细胞的技术，持有给试验用细胞授精的许可。

She holds a licence to fertilise them experimentally.

持有给试验用细胞授精的许可。

Contrariwise, that female might come across a better male and thus wish to be rid of the first lot of sperm. (Female spiders can do this because they store sperm for a period of days or weeks before they use it to fertilise their eggs.)

但反过来看，雌性蜘蛛也可能会遇到更好的雄性伴侣，因此就会打算抛弃前夫的精液（雌性蜘蛛之所以能这样做是因为她们能将精液存留数日或几周的时间，然后决定是否用其对卵子受精）。

Tomatoes are able to fertilise themselves, without need of a pollinator, yet even this self-pollination can be assisted by a bee visiting a flower.

番茄可以自我繁衍，不需要传粉者，但是如果有蜜蜂来传播花粉，这种自花授粉的植物也会得到帮助。

In the early 20th century, the world’s growing population couldn’t find enough ammonia to fertilise all its crops.

二十世纪初，世界人口不断增长，但人们还没有认识到足够的氨可以让耕地更加肥沃。

Even if he did fertilise the egg of a non-paired female it would not survive as it takes two adults to raise a single chick.

即使雄鸟让单身的雌鸟产下了受精卵，但如果没有两只成年鸟的照顾雏鸟将无法生存。

Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

建堤坝来阻断河流，既阻挡了回流产卵的鱼，又阻碍了下游淤泥肥沃土壤。

Sperm from several males must therefore compete to fertilise an egg.

来自不同雄鱼的精子会相互竞争与一个卵子结合。

He plans to fertilise his fields with manure, rather than chemicals derived from oil and natural gas.

他计划用肥料而不是石油或天然气衍生的有机肥来给地施肥。

One widely discussed idea, which the Royal Society’s correspondents re-examine, is to fertilise the oceans with iron.

一个受到广泛讨论，也是皇家学会成员再次斟酌的观点是利用铁物质对海洋施肥。

Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

用大坝阻断河流使得鱼类无法逆流而上去产卵，同时淤泥无法顺流而下去肥沃土地。

The programme, a dramatisation of the epic journey sperm undertake in their quest to fertilise the egg, reveals other fertility secrets.

这部纪录片戏剧化地讲述了精子使卵子受孕的伟大征程，同时还揭示了其他生殖秘密。

recycles uneaten fish feed to fertilise crops.

重复利用剩鱼来肥沃庄稼。