| 单词 | unfold |
| 释义 | un·fold transitive verb 1. a. < unfold a tablecloth > < unfolded the map > < unfold the arms > b. < hell shall unfold … her widest gates — John Milton > c. < began unfolding a brown paper parcel — W.B.Yeats > 2. < stand and unfold yourself — Shakespeare > especially < unfolded his story through dialogue — W.K.Ferguson > < unfolded to me his desires for the university — A.C.Benson > intransitive verb 1. a. < plane … wheels began to unfold — Howard Hunt > b. < buds beginning to unfold > c. < if the … child were permitted to unfold amid rich and stimulating surroundings — Margaret Mead > 2. < a panorama of carefully tilled farm lands … unfolds before the visitor's eyes — American Guide Series: Michigan > < suppressed his comment and let the narrative unfold simply and objectively — R.A.Cordell > 3. Synonyms: < a bud unfolds itself into a flower > < hitherto chemistry has not succeeded in unfolding the principles by which metals are formed — Encyc. Americana > < the creative spirit gains sustenance and vigor for its own unfolding — Edward Sapir > < the episodes of this life began to unfold themselves in his mind — Fred Majdalany > evolve implies an unfolding gradually and in an orderly way, often suggesting a slowness and complexity of process, sometimes carrying strongly the idea of natural development by an inner process < slowly, through ages and centuries, we have evolved a picture of the world we live in — Fortune > < the program we have evolved as a result of a year of deliberation is now complete in general outline — J.B.Conant > < the new order which seemed to be evolving — E.M.Forster > < the germinal situation out of which this book evolves — N.L.Rothman > develop, in this connection, implies a passing through several stages, stressing the unfolding, usually slow, of latent possibilities < the scientific writer must also have a broad point of view, developed by experience, reading, and reflection — C.E.Kellogg > < the viscose process was developed from the inventions of three Englishmen — American Guide Series: Virginia > < the quarrel grew hot, and finally developed into a lawsuit — Gilbert Highet > elaborate implies labor or effort to develop or realize the clear possibilities of something that is only in the germ or only partly formulated < only a system with order and progress in the heart of it could elaborate itself so perfectly and so intricately — J.A.Thomson > < escapes death from surgical infection because a Frenchman, Pasteur, and a German, Koch, elaborated a new technique — R.B.Fosdick > < did the tubercle bacillus elaborate some strange substance which tended to stimulate the mind — Harry Sylvester > perfect implies an unfolding or developing of something so that it stands as a complete or finished product < a series of complementary inventions, the phonograph, the moving picture, the gasoline engine, the steam turbine, the airplane, were all sketched in, if not perfected, by 1900 — Lewis Mumford > < conditions required of both Japanese and Americans a relentless perfecting of such cooperative efforts — T.C.Mendenhall b. 1910 > Synonym: see in addition solve. |
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