Growth
[grəʊθ] or [ɡroθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) vegetation that has grown; 'a growth of trees'; 'the only growth was some salt grass'.
(noun.) something grown or growing; 'a growth of hair'.
(noun.) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; 'he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children'.
(noun.) a progression from simpler to more complex forms; 'the growth of culture'.
(noun.) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).
編輯:雷金纳德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
(n.) That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
巴兹尔錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Increase, expansion, development.[2]. Produce, product.[3]. Advancement, advance, progress, improvement.
丹尼斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The reader will naturally be disposed to ask whether it is intended to claim that Edison has brought about all this magnificent growth of the electric-lighting art. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Habits as Expressions of Growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Indeed, the period seems a grand climax of discovery, rather than an increment of growth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Although twenty-one years of age, and of full growth, the phonograph is ever a wonderfully new and impressive device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Is it for this that we are asked to throw away the civilization which is the growth of ages? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The average rate of industrial growth in the United States is 10 per cent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- An increasing harvest of rich personalities is the social reward for a fine statesmanship, but such personalities are free growths in a cordial environment. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There were some cold intervals, it is true; but they did not last long enough to destroy the growths. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a mixture of growths and accumulations entirely different from anything that has ever been called an empire before. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Decidedly I am an old stalk, he thought, the young growths are pushing me aside. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Some people find it difficult to breathe through the nostrils on account of growths, called adenoids, in the nose. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Trick machines of unwieldy strength were built secretly, and reapers were driven into growths of young trees, and were fastened together and then pulled apart to prove which was the stronger. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Intelligent expression is often lacking in children with adenoid growths. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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