pullulate
英 ['p?lj?le?t]
美
- vi. 成長；發(fā)芽；產(chǎn)生；充滿；繁殖
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?pullulates;過去式:?pullulated;過去分詞:?pullulated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?pullulating;形容詞:?pullulating;
中文詞源
pullulate 迅速繁殖，大量擴散
來自拉丁語pullulare,生長，繁殖，來自pullulus,小動物，來自pullus的小詞形式，來自pullus,小動物，詞源同pullet,foal.
英文詞源
- pullulate
- pullulate: [17] The etymological notion underlying pullulate is of rapid ‘new growth’. It goes back ultimately to Latin pullus ‘young animal’, which also produced English pony and poultry and is distantly related to foal. From this was derived the verb pullulāre ‘grow, sprout’, whose past participle provided English with pullulate. This too originally meant ‘sprout’, a sense largely displaced since the 19th century by its metaphorical descendant ‘swarm, teem’.
=> foal, pony, poultry, pullet - pullulate (v.)
- 1610s, from Latin pullulatus, past participle of pullulare "put forth, grow, sprout, shoot up, come forth," from pullulus, diminutive of pullus "young animal" (see foal (n.)). Related: Pullulated; pullulating.
雙語例句
- 1. As the going says:'seed always take root , pullulate, and blossom out, and result everywhere.
- 有句話 “ 是種子在那兒都能生根, 發(fā)牙, 開花, 結(jié)果. ”
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