nourish
英['nʌrɪʃ]
美['nɜrɪʃ]
- vt. 滋养；怀有；使健壮
词态变化
第三人称单数: nourishes;过去式: nourished;过去分词: nourished;现在分词: nourishing;形容词: nourishing;
助记提示
nourish 养育 nurse 护士 (nour ← nur)
中文词源
nourish 抚养，滋养
来自古法语norrir,抚养，养育，来自拉丁语nutrire,喂养，哺乳，来自PIE*snau,流动，流淌，词源同naiad,nautical,nutriment.引申词义喂奶，抚养。拼写比较naive,native.
英文词源
- nourish
- nourish: see nurse
- nourish (v.)
- late 13c., "to bring up, nurture" (a child, a feeling, etc.), from Old French norriss-, stem of norrir "raise, bring up, nurture, foster; maintain, provide for" (12c., Modern French nourrir), from Latin nutrire "to feed, nurse, foster, support, preserve," from *nutri (older form of nutrix "nurse"), literally "she who gives suck," from PIE *nu- (from root *(s)nau- "to swim, flow, let flow," hence "to suckle;" see nutriment) + fem. agent suffix. Related: Nourished; nourishing.
双语例句
- 1. They needed good food to nourish their bodies.
- 他们需要好食品滋养身体.
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- 2. Journalists on the whole don't create public opinion. They can help to nourish it.
- 大体说来记者不制造舆论。他们会助长舆论。
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- 3. We need good food to nourish the starving infants.
- 我们需要好食品滋养这些挨饿的婴儿.
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- 4. My environment had failed to support me or nourish me.
- 我的环境不能养我育我.
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- 5. He ate -- but without relish, and food seemed no longer to nourish him.
- 他虽然吃东西, 但是辨不出滋味, 食物似乎失去了营养作用.
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