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Overgrown Garden Child Looked 英 ˌəʊvə'ɡrəʊn] 美 ˌoʊvər'ɡroʊn Adj.(草等)丛生的;成长过快的

英语单词 overgrown
英美音标 英 [ˌəʊvə'ɡrəʊn] 美 [ˌoʊvər'ɡroʊn]
中文释义 adj.(草等)丛生的;成长过快的
动词overgrow的过去分词形式.
英语例句 (1) The garden is overgrown with weeds.
(2) Worse, it was slowly becoming an overgrown weedy lot.
(3) An old farm mower rusting appealingly in an overgrown field.
(4) That man behaves like an overgrown child.
(5) A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
中文例句 (1) 这个园子里长了许多野草。
(2) 更糟糕的是,它慢慢变成一个杂草丛生的场地。
(3) 在杂草丛生的田里,一台生了锈的旧式农用割草机引人注目。
(4) 那男子一举一动像个大男孩。
(5) 超过了三十岁的诗人仅仅是个大孩子而已。
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]杂草丛生的;植被蔓生的 If a garden or other place is overgrown, it is covered with a lot of untidy plants because it has not been looked after.
  • We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds...

    我们匆匆往前走,来到一个野草丛生的院子。

  • As the equipment was unpacked, I led Lee around the overgrown garden.

    取出设备后,我带着李在花草蔓生的花园里转了一圈。

2
[ADJ 形容词](成年人)不成熟的,孩子气的 If you describe an adult as an overgrown child, you mean that their behaviour and attitudes are like those of a child, and that you dislike this.
  [ADJ n]
  [disapproval]
  • ...a bunch of overgrown kids...

    一帮大孩子

  • Daphne Farlow, at forty-five, still looked and spoke like an overgrown schoolgirl.

    45岁的达芙妮·法洛外貌言谈都还像个稚气未脱的小女生。

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