oxaloacetate
oxaloacetate — 名詞
1. a chemical compound made in living cells that helps release energy from food; it
草醯乙酸
細胞能量代謝的中間產物
a chemical compound made in living cells that helps release energy from food; it is also a type of salt or ester formed from oxaloacetic acid.
Walid measured the amount of oxaloacetate in the rat's liver cells for his experiment.
Walid 測量了大鼠肝臟細胞中的草醯乙酸含量，作為他的實驗數據。
collocation: amount of oxaloacetate
Constanza's biology teacher explained that oxaloacetate helps cells turn food into energy.
Constanza 的生物老師解釋說，草醯乙酸能幫助細胞將食物轉化為能量。
grammar pattern: oxaloacetate helps [cells] + verb
During the lab session, Shanti and her team tested how heat affects oxaloacetate levels.
在實驗課上，Shanti 和她的團隊測試了溫度如何影響草醯乙酸的含量。
The doctor said that low oxaloacetate can stop cells from making enough energy.
醫生說，草醯乙酸過低會讓細胞無法製造足夠的能量。
Tamar read a science article about how oxaloacetate reacts in the energy cycle of plants.
Tamar 閱讀了一篇科學文章，了解草醯乙酸在植物能量循環中如何反應。
文法句型
oxaloacetate + verb (is formed / reacts / becomes)
用法筆記
Usually uncountable when referring to the substance in general; countable when referring to different types of salts or esters (e.g., 'several oxaloacetates were tested').