flourished

英 [ˈflʌrɪʃt]

美 [ˈflɜːrɪʃt]

v.  繁荣; 昌盛; 兴旺; 茁壮成长; 健康幸福; (为引起注意)挥舞
flourish的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 繁荣;兴盛;兴旺
  If somethingflourishes, it is successful, active, or common, and developing quickly and strongly.
  1. Business flourished and within six months they were earning 18,000 roubles a day...
     生意红火起来，不出6 个月他们就可以每天赚 18,000 卢布了。
  2. Racism and crime still flourish in the ghetto.
     城市贫民区的种族主义和犯罪仍然十分猖獗。
• VERB (植物或动物)长势好，茁壮成长
  If a plant or animalflourishes, it grows well or is healthy because the conditions are right for it.
  1. The plant flourishes particularly well in slightly harsher climes.
     这种植物在气候条件稍差一点的地区长势尤其好。
• VERB 挥动，挥舞(以引起注意)
  If youflourishan object, you wave it about in a way that makes people notice it.
  1. He flourished the glass to emphasize the point.
     他挥动手中的杯子来强调这一点。
  2. Flourishis also a noun.
     
  3. He took his peaked cap from under his arm with a flourish and pulled it low over his eyes.
     他一下子把尖顶帽从胳膊下面掏出来戴在头上，然后把帽檐拉低盖住眼睛。
• N-COUNT (为引人注意的)夸张动作
  If you do somethingwith aflourish, you do in a showy way so that people notice it.
  1. She tended to finish dancing with a flourish.
     她往往以夸张的姿势结束舞蹈。
• N-COUNT 装饰曲线;装饰图案
  Aflourishis a curly line or piece of decoration.
  1. He scrawled his name across the bill, underlining it with a showy flourish.
     他在账单上潦草地签上自己的名字，并在名字下面画了一条花体线。

双语例句

• The classic Sanskrit literature flourished on the basis of the Vedic and Epic literature.
  梵语古典文学是在吠陀和史诗的基础上发展起来的。
• Local businessmen say one of the main reasons that Zhejiang has flourished is because it was neglected.
  当地商人表示，浙江繁荣起来的主要原因之一是它被忽视了。
• Some of the students who came to his celllater flourished as interpreters and compilers of dictionaries.
  他的学生中有一些后来成为了优秀的翻译家和字典的编撰者。
• Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished.
  跳出现实的束缚，我的想象力天马行空。
• Its fortune has flourished and declined with the economic development of Adelaide.
  它的命运随着阿德莱德市经济的发展而兴衰。
• The company has really flourished since the chief engineer joined us.
  自从主任工程师到我们公司来了以后，公司真正地兴旺起来了。
• Renaissance is a period when the arts and sciences flourished in Italy.
  文艺复兴是意大利科学和艺术的繁荣时期。
• During Qin and Han Dynasties, with the development of foreign exchange, silk cloth trade and export flourished.
  秦汉时期，随着对外交流与扩展，丝绸贸易和输出达到空前繁荣。
• And China has flourished in so many ways.
  中国在很多方面都获得了蓬勃的发展。
• Business flourished under the new boss.
  在新老板的领导下经营兴旺了起来。