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germinate v.发芽；开始生长 (1) 白菜一星期内就发芽了。(2) 种子发芽需要适当的温度。(3) 一部小说的构思已经在她的头脑中萌发。(4) 我看见我周围的万物汹涌向前，欣欣向荣。 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.

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英 ['dʒɜːmɪneɪt] 美 ['dʒɜːrmɪneɪt] (1) The cabbage germinated within a week.(2) Warmth is needed for the seeds to germinate.(3) An idea for a novel began to germinate in her mind.(4) I saw everything about me surge forth and germinate. To germinate is to grow or to develop. When a tiny seedling cracks through a seed casing and sprouts, it has germinated. The term is used for other things too, like when an idea germinates into a film or book. 1[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）发芽；（使）开始生长；（使）萌芽 If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow.   [V]  [V n]Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so...有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。First, the researchers germinated the seeds.研究人员首先让种子发芽。germinationThe poor germination of your seed could be because the soil was too cold.你的种子发芽率很低，可能是土壤温度太低的缘故。2[VERB 动词]（想法、计划或感觉）形成，产生 If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop.   [V]  [Also V into n]He wrote to Eliot about a 'big book' that was germinating in his mind.他写信告诉埃利奥特他脑海中正在酝酿的一本“巨著”。

英语单词	germinate
英美音标	英 ['dʒɜːmɪneɪt] 美 ['dʒɜːrmɪneɪt]
中文释义	v.发芽；开始生长
英语例句	(1) The cabbage germinated within a week. (2) Warmth is needed for the seeds to germinate. (3) An idea for a novel began to germinate in her mind. (4) I saw everything about me surge forth and germinate.
中文例句	(1) 白菜一星期内就发芽了。 (2) 种子发芽需要适当的温度。 (3) 一部小说的构思已经在她的头脑中萌发。 (4) 我看见我周围的万物汹涌向前，欣欣向荣。
vocabulary简明	To germinate is to grow or to develop. When a tiny seedling cracks through a seed casing and sprouts, it has germinated. The term is used for other things too, like when an idea germinates into a film or book.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）发芽；（使）开始生长；（使）萌芽 If a seed germinates or if it is germinated, it starts to grow. [V] [V n] Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so... 有一些种子发芽快，所以差不多每天得察看一下。 First, the researchers germinated the seeds. 研究人员首先让种子发芽。 germination The poor germination of your seed could be because the soil was too cold. 你的种子发芽率很低，可能是土壤温度太低的缘故。 2 [VERB 动词]（想法、计划或感觉）形成，产生 If an idea, plan, or feeling germinates, it comes into existence and begins to develop. [V] [Also V into n] He wrote to Eliot about a 'big book' that was germinating in his mind. 他写信告诉埃利奥特他脑海中正在酝酿的一本“巨著”。

Germinate Seed Germinated Idea Mind Develop Things [V