Flourish
['flʌrɪʃ] or [ˈflɜːrɪʃ]
解释:
(noun.) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; 'he entered to a flourish of trumpets'; 'her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare'.
(noun.) the act of waving.
(noun.) a display of ornamental speech or language.
(noun.) a showy gesture; 'she entered with a great flourish'.
(noun.) an ornamental embellishment in writing.
艾德琳校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
(v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
(v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
(v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
(n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
手打:威尔
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Thrive, grow.[2]. Prosper, succeed, be successful, go on well.[3]. Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade, bluster, make a show, be ostentatious, show off, cut a dash, make a flourish.
v. a. Brandish, wave.
n. [1]. Ostentation, parade, show, display, dash.[2]. Bombast, grandiloquence, flowery speech, high-sounding words.[3]. Fanciful strokes (of a pen, &c.).
杜威手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave
ANT:Fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground
伊诺克校对
解释:
v.i. to thrive luxuriantly: to be prosperous: to use copious and flowery language: to move in fantastic figures: to display ostentatiously: (mus.) to play ostentatious passages or ostentatiously: to play a trumpet-call: to make ornamental strokes with the pen: to boast or brag.—v.t. to adorn with flourishes or ornaments: to swing about by way of show or triumph: (Shak.) to gloss over.—n. decoration: showy splendour: a figure made by a bold stroke of the pen: the waving of a weapon or other thing: a parade of words: a musical prelude: a trumpet-call.—adjs. Flour′ished decorated with flourishes; Flour′ishing thriving: prosperous: making a show.—adv. Flour′ishingly.—adj. Flour′ishy abounding in flourishes.—Flourish of trumpets a trumpet-call sounded on the approach of great persons; any ostentatious introduction.
编辑:帕梅拉
例句:
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- What will flourish on Rushedge? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The plan will flourish in spite of them, and then they'll be glad to come in. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Her happiness is no object to me, sir,' said Benjamin Allen, with a flourish of the hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- But he'll flourish here, and everywhere,' said Rigaud, with an exulting look and snap of his fingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He flourished back and got his cup and set it down triumphantly, and said: Just try that mixture once, Captain Duncan. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Those fisheries, upon this account, have had all the encouragement which freedom can give them, and they have flourished accordingly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Imported horses were introduced at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and so flourished in the wild state that in 1580 they were found as far south as the Strai t of Magellan. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- She told me that these people had presumably flourished over a hundred thousand years before. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There flourished the first temples and the first priest-rulers that we know of among mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For some time Buddhism flourished in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The opposition has gradually ceased, and the Franklinian system is now universally adopted where science flourishes. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- There were no flourishes, but the individual letters would not bear close inspection. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But upon my soul I can't make flourishes, and I would rather be disappointed than try. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I found that the vertical style, with each letter separate and without any flourishes, was the most rapid, and that the smaller the letter the greater the rapidity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- As it was, you would have fancied he was a flourishing, large parson of the Church of England. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The ribbon, flourishing in puffs and bows about the head, was of the sort called love-ribbon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
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