单词详解 | germinate

germinate
音标
英音/ ˈdʒɜːmɪneɪt / 美音/ ˈdʒɜːrmɪneɪt /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
Sogolon’s bitterness germinates early in life, when she’s kept on a leash and terrorized by a trio of brothers, “all wicked.”
索戈隆的痛苦在她很小的时候就开始萌芽,当时她被三个“都很邪恶”的兄弟拴住并恐吓。
Washington Post

In an entire decade of modern adulthood, only a few seeds I planted actually germinated into friendships.
在现代成年人的整整十年里,我种下的种子只有几颗真正发芽成友谊。
Washington Post

White says the idea about a homecoming first began to germinate after he and Berkeley made a big life decision a few years ago.
怀特说,几年前他和伯克利做出了人生的重大决定后,返乡的想法就开始萌芽。
BBC

基本释意
verb
produce buds, branches, or germinate
使发芽;使生长

同义词
bourgeon,burgeon forth,pullulate,shoot,sprout,spud,develop,evolve

短释义
Sometimes you want things to germinate, like the heirloom tomato seeds in your backyard garden. Sometimes what germinates is not desirable — like how joblessness, economic problems, and generations of anti-Semitism provided a fertile ground for Nazism to germinate in pre-war Germany. The word’s roots are in botany, but it has grown, or dare we say germinated, to be used for any time something grows and develops.
发芽是指生长或发育。当一棵小幼苗穿过种皮并发芽时,它就已经发芽了。该术语也用于其他事物,例如当一个想法萌芽成电影或书籍时。

长释义
Sometimes you want things to germinate, like the heirloom tomato seeds in your backyard garden. Sometimes what germinates is not desirable — like how joblessness, economic problems, and generations of anti-Semitism provided a fertile ground for Nazism to germinate in pre-war Germany. The word’s roots are in botany, but it has grown, or dare we say germinated, to be used for any time something grows and develops.
有时您希望东西发芽,例如后院花园里的传家宝番茄种子。有时,萌芽的东西并不理想——比如失业、经济问题和几代人的反犹太主义为纳粹主义在战前德国的萌芽提供了肥沃的土壤。这个词的根源在于植物学,但它已经成长,或者我们敢说已经萌芽,可以用于任何事物生长和发育的时候。

文学例句
But the new conditions created by the return of the exiles and the germinating influence of Ezekiel’s ideas developed a process of new legislative construction.
但流放者的回归所创造的新条件以及以西结思想的萌芽影响推动了新的立法建设进程。
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2
“Hearing” to “Helmond” by Various

If any of them can still germinate after their ordeal, that’ll be great.
如果他们中的任何一个在经历磨难后仍然能发芽,那就太好了。
The Martian by Andy Weir

The seeds are in every breast, and they never fail to germinate under auspicious circumstances.
每个胸膛里都有种子,在吉祥的环境下它们总能发芽。
Recollections of Windsor Prison;
Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with
Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.

词源
germinate (v.)c. 1600, probably a back-formation from germination. Figurative use from 1640s. Related: Germinated; germinating. Earlier germynen (mid-15c.) was from Old French germiner or directly from Latin germinare.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
发芽 (v.)c. 1600年,可能是发芽后形成的。 1640 年代的比喻用法。相关:发芽;发芽。早期的 germynen(15 世纪中期)源自古法语germiner 或直接源自拉丁语germinare。相关条目及更多


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