0 to perform a medical operation on someone in order to make them unable to have children -- 為…做結紮手術，使絕育
1 to make something completely clean and free from bacteria -- 為…消毒，使無菌
All equipment must be sterilized before use. 所有設備使用前都要消毒。
All cages, food, water, and bedding were sterilized before use.
The exposure to radiation in space for such a period has a high probability of sterilizing all but the largest rocky bodies.
A background spectrum was taken of the clean, dry crystal and the cell was filled with 70% ethanol for sterilizing overnight.
Table 3 shows the relatively poor reproductive histories of women sterilized in 1951-52.
We do not sterilize surgical instruments as a precautionary measure, as we know that an infection is rather probable if we use unclean instruments.
Following terminal anaesthesia the skin overlying the thorax was shaved, at the same time being sterilized with alcohol swabs.
Furthermore, we examined the bacterial growth in marine water in the absence of natural biological competitors, such as protozoae, using sterilized marine water.
Isolated seeds were sterilized by immersion in a solution of 0.5% sodium hypochlorite for 1 min and washed twice in sterile water before incubation.
