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Vegetate V Lead Vedʒiteit 像植物般生活;无所事事 英 V.像植物般生活;无 所事事(To

单词 vegetate
音标 ['vedʒiteit]
解释 v. 像植物般生活;无所事事
红宝书 【英】 v.像植物般生活;无 所事事(to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind)
【记】 veget(植物)+ate→像 植物一样→过呆板的 生活;
【同】 参考:vegetable(蔬 菜)
【例】 Many elderly folk vegetate and die in loneliness.
字源 vegetate (v.)
c.1600, "to grow as plants do," perhaps a back-formation from vegetation, or from Latin vegetatus, past participle of vegetare "to enliven, to animate" (see vegetable (adj.)). Sense of "to lead a dull, empty, or stagnant life" is from 1740. Related: Vegetated; vegetating.
不择手段背单词 v. 像植物般生活(过呆板单调的生活, 一种身体或精神不活跃或无感觉的状态)
【记】源于: vegetable(n 蔬菜; 生活呆板单调的人)
趣味全助记 【记】vegetable 植物

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