Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, 3rd person singular present tense sprouts, present participle sprouting, past tense, past participle sprouted
1VERB (植物、蔬菜、種子)發芽,抽芽,長芽 When plants, vegetables, or seeds sprout, they produce new shoots or leaves. (植物、蔬菜、種子)發芽,抽芽,長芽
It only takes a few days for beans to sprout. [VERB]
3VERB [no passive]使生長 If a garden or other area of land sprouts plants, they start to grow there. 使生長
...the garden, which had had time to sprout a shocking collection of weeds. [VERB noun]
久而久之便野草叢生的花園
4VERB (出於食用目的)使(豆子、種子等)發芽 If you sprout beans or seeds, you make them grow small shoots before eating them. You usually do this by soaking them in water. (出於食用目的)使(豆子、種子等)發芽
When you sprout seeds their nutritional content increases. [VERB noun]
讓種子發芽後,其營養含量會提高。
Sprouted beans only need to be cooked for 1-2 minutes. [VERB-ed]
豆芽只需烹炒一到兩分鐘。
5V-ERG [no passive](毛發等)生長,長出 If something such as hair sprouts from a person or animal, or if they sprout it, it grows on them. (毛發等)生長,長出
She is very old now, with little, round, wire-rimmed glasses and whiskers sprouting from her chin. [VERB prep.]
她現在很老了,戴着圓圓的金屬架小眼鏡,下巴上還長出了胡須。
As well as sprouting a few grey hairs, Kevin seems to be suffering the occasional memory loss. [VERB noun]
除長出了些許白發外,凱文似乎還患上了間歇性失憶。
6V-ERG 大量湧現;迅猛發展 If a large number of things have appeared or developed somewhere, you can say that they have sprouted there or that the place has sprouted them. 大量湧現;迅猛發展 [Also VERB]
More than a million satellite dishes have sprouted on homes across the country. [VERB adv./prep.]
100 多萬個衛星接收器迅速出現在了全國各地的家庭用戶中。
Since its first shop was opened in 1976, it has sprouted outlets in 39 countries. [VERB noun]