flourishes

英 [ˈflʌrɪʃɪz]

美 [ˈflɜːrɪʃɪz]

v.  繁荣; 昌盛; 兴旺; 茁壮成长; 健康幸福; (为引起注意)挥舞
flourish的第三人称单数

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

• Obama responded by saying that he and Patrick are friends and that they often share ideas and rhetorical flourishes.
  奥巴马回应说他和P是好朋友并且经常分享一些思想和精彩的措辞。
• Where it still flourishes today.
  到今时今日仍然繁盛。
• The rooms are decorated with modern Oriental design flourishes and high-tech in-room amenities.
  客房装饰融合了典雅的东方元素和时尚的现在风格，室内有完备的顶级配套设施。
• Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
  当文学一半成为贸易，一半成为艺术时，那是它最繁荣的时期。
• The conventional practice flourishes in the United States.
  这种常规做法在美国很盛行。
• 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。
• You should spend time on basic training, not on those flourishes.
  要练好基本功，别尽学花架子。
• As tourist development grows in Xian, the hotel industry flourishes more and more.
  西安作为旅游发展的增长，酒店业也越来越兴旺。
• He decorated his discourse with quaint flourishes of style and Latin quotations.
  他用了一些古雅而有气派的华丽词藻和拉丁引文来装饰自己的论文。
• Furthermore, we know that a nation's culture flourishes by interacting with other cultures.
  此外，我们知道，一个民族的文化只有同其他文化互动才能繁荣。