mating
US:/ˈmeɪtɪŋ/
UK:/'meɪtɪŋ/
n.:
伙伴，同事；老兄，老弟（工人、水手间的亲密称呼）；配偶（男女任何一方）
v.:
(使)交配；(使)紧密配合；【象棋】逼将，将军
网络:
交尾；配套；配种
Word forms: (复数) mates (过去分词) mated (现在分词) mating
Examples
1.
"Groom" life is not long, died shortly after mating to leave, "the widow, " living a lonely life of ants alone.
“新郎”寿命不长，交尾后不久死亡留下“遗孀”蚁后独自过着孤单生活。
2.
What they learned was that type breedings and the mating of champions to champions did not produce more champions.
他们所学的是根据犬型来繁殖，而将冠军公犬与冠军母犬进行配对，并没有繁殖出更多的冠军后代。
3.
Even he, however, might have been surprised by the subtlety of the effects now being detected by researchers looking into human mating.
即使达尔文自己也许也会被当今科学家们观察发现的人类繁殖的微妙之处所惊讶。
4.
He had been a photojournalist then, charged with the unhappy task of filming the mating rituals of hippos.
之后他转职做了摄影记者，也就不得不去应付拍摄河马交配这样的苦差事。
5.
The tapered plug or "needle" is screwed in or out of a mating orifice in the body and thus controls the effective orifice size.
其锥形插头或“针头”是阀体上配置的螺纹旋进旋出的节流道，因此能够有效控制节流面积。
6.
In her view, dating via the Internet enables, as she wrote, "the modern human brain to pursue more comfortably its ancestral mating dance. "
以她的观点，通过互联网相亲可以——如她所写“让现代人脑以更舒适的方式继续祖先的交配舞蹈。”
7.
An example of their use is to seal the surface between a machined, cold headed or forged shell and a mating machined surface.
其中的一个用途是密封经过机械加工和冷处理或锻造壳和机械加工的吻合面之间的表面。
8.
"My mother had chickens in the yard when I was growing up, and I used to watch them mating, " I said.
“我小时候妈妈在院子里养过小鸡，我曾看过他们交配”，他说。
9.
One pair of jaguars even shows some very rarely seen mating behavior, so the smell seems to turn these animals on.
一对美洲虎在闻到这种气味后，甚至表现出罕见的求偶行为，可见如此气息彻底激活了这些动物。
10.
It was the mating season and he had obviously been fighting and judging from his other healed scars it was not the first time in his life.
现在正是狮子交配的季节，它明显地经过了搏斗。根据已经痊愈的伤疤，可以推测，这种搏斗在它的生活中并非是第一次。