载体

• 拼音: zài tǐ
• 汉字拆解: 载 = 车 + 𠂉 (to carry/transport by vehicle); 体 = 亻+ 本 (body/form/structure)

含义

Carrier; vehicle; medium. Something that bears, transmits, or conveys something else — whether material, informational, or conceptual.

Widely used across disciplines: in biology (病毒载体, 基因载体), technology (数据载体), and social/cultural discourse (文化载体, 语言是文化的载体). It describes the medium through which something is borne or expressed, making it a key academic and formal term.

例句

1. 语言是文化传播最核心的载体，承载着一个民族的历史积淀与集体记忆。
2. 腺病毒载体已被广泛应用于基因治疗与疫苗研发的药物递送研究中。
3. 新媒体已成为当代年轻人获取信息、传递观点的最主要载体之一。

用法指南

语境: biology, technology, culture, media

语气: academic

正确说法

• 博物馆作为文化传承的重要载体，肩负着保护历史遗产并使之世代延续的社会责任。(As a vital vehicle for cultural inheritance, museums shoulder the social responsibility of protecting historical heritage and passing it down through generations.)
• 在基因工程中，质粒常被用作将外源基因导入宿主细胞的载体工具。(In genetic engineering, plasmids are commonly used as carriers for introducing foreign genes into host cells.)

错误说法

• 这辆车是载体 in a non-technical everyday context — use 交通工具 for ordinary vehicles; 载体 specifically implies a transmission or conveyance function for something abstract or biological

起源与历史

载 (to carry/transport/load) + 体 (body/form/medium)

文化背景

世代: Educated adults

社会背景: Educated